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should be taken from a householder. The dead body should be tied securely and taken to a forest far off. The borrowed bamboos should be returned to the owner. If a monk should have had some scuffle with a householder, he should not have alms from there without first apologising to him.
Monks and nuns should cross the five rivers, viz. Ganga, Yamunā, Sarayu, Kausika and Mahi once or twice a month. Other small rivers not having much water may be crossed thrice. They should stay in the rainy season at a place which contains a cluster of straw, without cobwebs of spiders. The height of the ceiling must be more than that of an average man. A room where a head may dash against the sill should be avoided.
If a god in the disguise of a woman should embrace a monk and if he consents to it, he is to blame. Likewise if a goddess in the disguise of a man should embrace a nun with her consent, she has to atone for four months. In the midst of a scuffle if a monk goes away to another Order in a huff, its preceptor, on knowing of it should recommend a cut of five days and nights and send him back to his old Order after pacifying him to his satisfaction.
Should a monk, strong or weak, entertain a mistaken impression of sunrise and the sun not having set and eats, he must belch it out on knowing the factual position. But if he ignores it or is not certain about it, he is a defaulter. If he swallows it he incurs the sin of eating at night and may also be subject to four months atonement. Should an insect fall into food or drink, it should be taken out carefully. If it be impossible to take out such two- sensed insects, the food should be put at a secluded place containing no life. If the food that a monk is taking be hot and if some drops of water containing life fall into it, it can be taken safely since those drops in the warm food become lifeless, but never in stale food. Such food must not be given to any other person but deposited at some lonely place.
He who is freed from all ties must not stay alone, naked and without utensils. He must not adopt postures like that of a cock, heroic, particularly sitting and like that of a rod and in such postures must not give up all physical activities. He should not protect himself against seasonal rigours, outside a village. Nuns should do nothing that might be hurtful to their chastity. In special circumstances smearing the body is permissible, otherwise generally it is prohibited. When one is sick, for instance, smearing and massaging the body are permitted.
Monks and nuns must not speak disdainful, angry words and nothing even after the dispute should have ended. Nobody should be accused, since accusations and counter-accusations lead to dissensions. In case a thom penetrates his skin, and a nun extracts it in the absence of any other monk it is not sinful. Likewise in the case of a nun a monk may do it. While walking on an uneven ground, sliding from a mountain or crossing a
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