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bark, trees, wood or charcoal are being worked, houses on burial-places, rooms for retirement near the place of sacrifice', empty houses, hill-houses; caves, stone-houses, or palaces. He should say to those reverend persons who live in such-like places as workshops, &c., together with other guests : ‘O long-lived one! you sin by living in a place frequented by other sectarians.' (8)
4. Here, in the east, &c. They accordingly give, &c. (all as in 88 down to) palaces. If the mendicants come there while the other religious men do not come there, they sin by living in a place not frequented by other mendicants. (9)
5. In the east, west, north, or south there are faithful householders, viz. a householder or his wife, &c., who will speak thus : 'It is not meet that these illustrious, pious, virtuous, eloquent, controlled, chaste ascetics, who have ceased from sexual intercourse, should dwell in a lodging which is âdhâkarmika 2: let us give to the mendicants the lodgings which are ready for our use, viz. workshops, &c., and let us, afterwards, prepare lodgings for our own use, viz. workshops, &c.' Hearing and perceiving such talk, if the reverend persons frequent such-like lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., and live in them which are ceded by other people (they should be warned): 'O long-lived one! that (lodging is infected by the sin called) vargakriya.' (10)
6. Here, in the east, &c. (see 8 all down to) they give lodging-places for the sake of many Sramanas and Brâhmanas, guests, paupers, and beggars, after having well counted them, in workshops, &c.
* Sântigriha.
* See note 5 on p. 81.
