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S. B. DEO MORAL DISCIPLINE AND SELF-CONTROL :
(1) Washing the hands, feet, legs, eyes, teeth, nails or face with hot or cold water.25
(2) Eating all sorts of medicines.26 (3) Taking out small beings from one's body.27
(4) Arranging or cutting long nails or hair from the armpit or moustache or hair from legs and eyes.28
(5) Brushing or cleaning the teeth.29
(6) Wiping, cleaning or massaging the lips, cutting or fashioning the moustache.30
(7) Wiping or cleaning the eyes, or fashioning the eyebrows or side hair. 31
(8) Taking out dirt from the eyes, ears, teeth, nails or from the body.32
(9) Wiping, massaging or applying oil, ghee, etc. to, or spraying powder over, washing with water or fumigating one's feet or the rest of the parts of the body33
(10) The same as above pertaining to mutual action in a group of monks.34
(11) Not scanning the ground for easing nature, depositing the excreta on a small 'thandila,' depositing it in an improper manner; not wiping the anus, or wiping it with a stick or finger; not cleaning it, or cleaning it there or after going to a distance; or cleaning it more than thrice (?).35
(12) Wiping, massaging, applying oil, etc. to one's wounds; cutting the boil, etc. with a weapon; taking out the pus or blood and then cleaning it with water and applying oil or ointment to the wound.36
(13) Same as above pertaining to a group of monks.37
25. Ibid., 2, 21. 26. Ibid., 4, 19. 27. Ibid., 3, 40. 28. Ibid., 3, 41-46. 29. Ibid., 3, 47-49. 30. Ibid., 3, 50-57. 31. Ibid., 3, 64-65. 32. Ibid., 3, 66-67. 33. Ibid., 3, 16-27. 34. Ibid., 4, 49. 35. Ibid., 4, 102-111. 36. Ibid., 3, 28-29. 37. Ibid., 4, 49.
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