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AKARANGA SÛTRA.
THIRD LECTURE
CALLED
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
WALKING'.
FIRST LESSON.
When the rainy season has come and it is raining, many living beings are originated and many seeds just spring up, the roads between (different places) contain many living beings, seeds, &c. (see II, I, I, § 2), the footpaths are not used, the roads are not recognisable. Knowing this (state of things) one should not wander from village to village, but remain during the rainy season in one place2. (1)
When a monk or a nun knows that in a village or scot-free town, &c. (see I, 7, 6, § 3), there is no large place for religious practices nor for study; that there cannot easily be obtained a stool, bench, bed, or couch, nor pure, acceptable alms; that there have come or will come many Sramanas and Brâhmanas, guests, paupers, and beggars; that the means of existence are extremely small; that it is not fit for a wise man to enter or leave it, &c. (see II, 1, 4, §1); in such a village, scot-free town, &c., they should not remain during the cold season. (2)
When a monk or a nun knows that in a village or scot-free town, &c., there is a large place for religious practices or for study; that there can easily
1 Iriyâ.
2 I. e. keep the paggusan.
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