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Paushadha place and in observing and cleaning the place for calls of nature and thinking of food and other worldly things during the fast. The defects with reference to drinking water, eating dainty dishes, personal decorations, talking in any way, etc., as laid down in the scriptures should be avoided.
12th vow:-The twelfth vow is called Atithi
Samvibhāga Vrata by virtue of which a householder should lovingly receive a guest and treat him with respect and consideration and provide him with food free from all impurities. He should leave off all pretensions by abstaining to call him before his food time or after he has taken his food. He should not show his reluctance by angry words or by implied refusal. He should specially extend his hospitality to the ascetic and should be ready to render all deserving services to him.
The thirty-five rules of conduct which are a first step on the ladder of spiritual progress and which every person desirous of making spiritual advancement should adopt are given below as abridged from Mr. Herbert Warren's" Jainism.
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The first rule inculcates that a layman in order to support himself and his family should follow some kind of business which is not of an ignoble or degrading nature and he must guard himself against adopting any dishonest and foul means of acquiring money. As a means to control promiscuous indulgence he should marry but there should be no inter-marriage among persons connected by a close tie
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