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--shown towards the political developments that were then taking place on the historical scene. [The detailed rules obligatory on a monk while stationing at one place for four months during rainy season are laid down in Daśā chapter VIII (iii). ] Lastly, we might note a group of rulings which do not strictly belong to the sphere of monastic discipline-they rather belong to the sphere of general morals- but to which considerable import, ance is attached in Chedasūtras. These are rulings pertaining to the ques. tion of sexual misconduct; so many of the in occur even in Kalpa --e. g. 4, 9-10, 5. 13-14 --(where, again, nuns are placed under hvavier restricti. ons than monks) but a truly large number of thein do so in Nisītha (e.g. the whole chapters VI, VII, VIII).) The bearing of these rulings on the right maintenance of monastic discipline is only too obvious, for after all continence is one thing whose possession so sharply demarcates a monk from a householder. Closely related - because equally intended to counter the spirit of worldliness - are the detailed Niśītha prohibitions against a monk greedily attending to the pleasing spectacles (12. 17-29) and pleasing sounds (17. 135-38) of this or that sort.
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