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SECTION IV
चउत्थो उद्देसो
Cauttho Uddeso
अवियत्तस्स एगल्लविहार-पदं ६२. गामाणुगामं दूइज्जमाणस्स दुज्जातं दुप्परक्कंतं भवति अवियत्तस्स
froTHI
Aviyattassa egallav ihāra -padań
62. Gâmāņugámam dūijjamāṇassa dujjātam dupparakkar
tam bhavati aviyattassa bhikkhumo.
Practice of Asceticism in Solitar iness by an Immature Ascetic
62.
A monk who, in an immature state, moves about from village to village (in solitariness), gets overwhelmed by hardships. (By doing so, ) he embarks upon undesirable adventure.
ANNOTATION 62. One of the disciples asked the preceptor. "O Preceptor! What does the word avyakta (i. e, immature) connote ?"
The preceptor replied, "Some persons are immature both in knowledge and age; some persons are immature in knowledge but mature in age; Some persons are mature in knowledge and immature in age; and some persons are mature both in knowledge and age."
Those who are above the age of sixteen are mature with respect to age, and those who have learned upto the third part (viz. Acara -vastu) of the Ninth Book of the Fourteen Purvas, are mature with respect to knowledge. The muni
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