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BOOK II, LECTURE 2, LESSON 3.
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prepared by the householders for their own sake under the same circumstances as detailed in the preceding paragraph, and the reverend persons frequent such-like lodgings, they lead, in those lodgings, an unambiguous life. O long-lived one! that (lodging is infected by the very small sin called) alpa savadyakriya.'
This is the whole duty, &c. Thus I say. (14)
THIRD LESSON. It is difficult to obtain pure, acceptable alms; it is indeed nor free from such preparations as strewing the ground (with Darbha-grass), smearing it (with cowdung), shutting the doors and securing the beds. And he (the mendicant) delights in pilgrimage, religious exercises, study, begging for a bed, a couch, or other alms.'
Some mendicants explain thus (the requisites of a lodging); they are called upright, searching after liberation, practising no deceit.
Some householders (who, having learned the requisites of a lodging-place, fit one out accordingly, try to deceive the mendicants, saying): This lodging, which we offer you, has been assigned to you, it has been originally prepared for our sake, or for the sake of some relations, it has been used, it has been relinquished.
Explaining thus, he truly explains. (The teacher says) : Well, he is (an explainer of the truth). (1)
1 The commentators say that this passage contains the mendicant's answer to an invitation to live in this or that village. By the second it is meant the lodging. • The commentator supposes here the householder to further
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