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cleaning [of the vessel] after [use or] before [use] is to be [foreseen], it is not allowed to accept [the alms]. For this reason, the Free Ones do not eat from a householder's vessel. 54. It is considered as a sin by the good [monks] to sit for a shorter or a longer time on an easy chair or on a sofa, a scaffold or an aśālaka. 55. The Free Ones, following the word of the wise [teachers], [should not be found] on easy chairs, sofas, a place of study, or a bench, without having inspected it. 56. Those beings are difficult to be seen, as they dwell in places not to be found. For this reason, easy chairs and sofas are to be avoided. 57. To [a monk] who wishes to do his very best on the begging-tour, a sin leading to lack of knowledge [and resulting in sins] of the following kind might occur, when he is allowed to sit down [for rest]: 58. Transgression of [the vow of] chastity, injury against living beings by killing them, wrong [inflicted] on beggars, anger [caused in the mind] of householders, 59. non-observation of chastity, trouble from a woman. From [every] case that would encourage bad conduct [a monk] should keep far away. 60. To sit down [for rest] on the begging-tour is allowed to a [monk] of the [following] three [kinds only]: one afflicted by old age, one afflicted by illness, [and] one who is fasting. 61. [A monk] who not being ill desires a bath [by him] good conduct is transgressed, [and his] self-control is incomplete. 62. There are those very small beings living in fissures and furrows [of the ground], and a monk would frighten them by [pouring out] pure water when bathing. 63. Therefore [the monks] do not bathe neither in cold water nor in warm one; as long as they live, they practise the hard vow [called] abstaining from bathing. 64. They never have a bath nor use paste, lodhra, or padmaka in order to rub their body. 65. What has a naked, or [at least] tonsured [monk] who is hairy and longnailed and is far from sensual pleasures, to do with adornment! 66. By adornment, a monk binds Karman which is [so] slippery [that] it makes him fall in the deadful ocean of Samsara, so difficult to be crossed. 67. Adornment is regarded... (etc. as 37).... 68. [But] those who look upon that which is opposed to delusion, who are content with fasting and with the virtue of self-control and simplicity,
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