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tricts should be avoided, and this warning may well be connected apart from others with the regulation that one should avoid visiting too often ten individually mentioned capital towns (Nis. 9, 19). Hence we see both monks and nuns leading a life of constant travelling, and we know of no permanent settlements Nuns may not stay in close living communities (villages, etc.) for longer than four, monks not for longer than two months (K. 1, 6-9). We may assume that in most cases the time of their stay was much shorter, comp. the words game ega-rāijā, nagare panca-rālyā viharantı in Uvay. 29. Busy places like a main street, a square or a bazar and public localities as, for instance, a guest house, the roots of bamboo and trecs (comp. Thân. 157a), may be chosen for quarters by monks only (K. 1, 12f 2, 11), and it goes without saying that the two sexes are not allowed to stay together in one house (K. 1, 27-30, exceptions Thān. 314a). For further regulations sec Āyar. II 2; K. 1, 14 f. 31-34).
$147. By a certain formula, so it seems (Āyār. II 78, 8,1 106, 15; 108, 6), the monk introduces himself as a guest and asks the proprietor sāgārıya, occasionally sāriya) for a accommodation. This request concerns the oggaha of the host, i.e. the room of which he is the master.2 So this word gave-the name to the user granted by him for a limited time, the expression ahalandam denoting the shortest space in question. Several special cases are referred to by K. 1, 39-42; 3, 28-33; 35; Vav. 4, 20ff , 7, 20 23,9, 43; the basic rule and a detailed casuistry in Āyār. II 7. Here we learn that the monk-is bound to ask for the oggaha even for objects to be used temporarily only. The accommodation (uuassaya, Āyār. 1 34, II: ādāsaha) does not merely serve for resting (sejjā) but equally for ascetic exercises (thāna) and either for meditation or studying (nisīhiyā). The resp. passages in Āyār. II 2, therefore, refer to all three cases; for the first and the third comp. also Āyār. II 8 and 9. For many reasons the quarters may not be shared by the host
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2. Comp the ogg of celestial and terrestrial princes and propricors Viy 700a.
