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259 (4) As a piece of cloth filled with dust is shaken with force, so also the
cloth should be shaken mightily. (5) To mix up the inspected cloth with the uninspected one or to scatter
the inspected cloth sideways. While inspecting, to place the hand above, down or behind the knees or to place the hand between the knees or arms. The monk who does it all non-chalantly is but a fake ascetic,
Morning and afternoon are the proper time to inspect papers and utensils. According to Nemicandra the time for inspecting ten equipments like the piece of cloth to cover the mouth is the morning. The time for inspecting fourteen equipments is later than the afternoon. According to Oghaniryukti what is to be inspected is of fourteen kinds as follows:
(1) Utensils (2) The string used for binding pots (3) The place where pots are kept (4) Pātra Kesarikā (5)*Patala' (6) Protection against dust-particles (7) 'Guchhaga' three (8-10) three 'Pachevadis' (11) broom (12) Filter for the mouth (13) matraka (14) The waist cloth of a monk.
Pravacanasāroddhāra mentions them as under:
(1) Filter for the mouth (2) Waist-cloth (3) gochhaga (4) Pātrapratilekhanika (5) String to bind pots (6) Screen (7) Protection against dust-particles (8) Place for putting utensils (9) Mataeka (10) Pot (11) Broom (12-14) Three Pachevadis..
What is kept permanently by a monk is Oghaupadhi and what is kept for a special purpose is Aupagrāhikā
Monks are permitted to keep permanently twelve articles, those living in groups fourteen and nuns twenty-five. What is kept beyond the above prescribed number is for a short time and for a special purpose.
Uccāra-prašravaņa-Sleşma-Singhāna-jalla-ParisthāpanikāExcrets and urine as also broken utensils should be placed on a bare ground which must have no live vermins.
Uttarādhyana sūtra says that excreta and urine should be discharged on a ground distant from villages and gardens and places burnt sometime back, because vermins maybe produced at places burnt a long
time back.
Haribhadra says that to drop all kinds of things and not to take them back is Paristhāpanikā Samiti.
The difference between it and Adananiksepana is that the latter is not renounced for good whereas in the former it is not to be taken back at all.
Gupti means self-control which is possible by taking the mind away from evil tendencies and fixing it on auspicious ones. Unless they are weaned away from the evil course, there is no chance of focussing it on the
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