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(1) Prepared and decorated for an ascetic. (2) Repaired or renovated for an ascetic. (3) Bulbous roots etc. are being shifted or taken away to make it
suitable for an ascetic. (4) Stools and other such things are being shifted from there.
It is mentioned in the Brihatkalpa Bhashya 583-584—There are chances of transgression of basic and secondary virtues during this process of preparing or renovating the house and shifting of live (vegetables etc.) and lifeless things within or without. Here, in Acharanga Sutra, the use of these four types of upashrayas has been censured as well as allowed. Such houses can be used for ascetic activities like meditation provided they are purushantarkrit (a thing which has been used by a member of the family of a donor), not specifically prepared for ascetics and have already been used by householders.
Once they are purushantarkrit, such upashrayas become free of flaws like auddeshik, kreet and arambhkrit (intended for, purchased for or sinfully constructed for ascetics). When a householder constructs a house for his own use, possesses it for his own use, allots it for his own or public use, uses it himself or allows others to use it then that house no more remains intended for ascetics'. It becomes ‘made for other use'. In Dashavaikalik Sutra 8/51 there is a permission for an ascetic to live in a house prepared for others. (Vritti leaf 361)
A house having flaws of basic attributes is not usable even if it is purushantarkrit. That is why other adjectives are used—"nihade attatthiye paribhutte asevite.”
ऊँचे उपाश्रय में निवास का निषेध
८५. से भिक्खू वा २ से जं पुण उवस्सयं जाणेज्जा, तं जहा-खंधंसि वा मंचंसि वा मालंसि वा पासायंसि वा हम्मियतलंसि वा अण्णयरंसि वा तहप्पगारंसि
अंतलिक्खजायंसि णण्णत्थ आगाढागाढेहिं कारणेहिं ठाणं वा ३ चेइज्जा। pretgrum : ferita Bezleri
( P&O) Shaiyyaishana : Second Chapter
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