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ÂKÂRÂNGA SOTRA.
unconverted people, people who rise or eat at an improper time, should, if there be some other place for walking about or friendly districts, not choose the former road for their voyage. (8)
The Kevalin says: This is the reason: The ignorant populace might bully, beat, &c., the mendicant, in the opinion that he is a thief or a spy, or that he comes from yonder (hostile village); or they might take away, cut off, steal or rob his robe, almsbowl, mantle, or broom. Hence it has been said to the mendicant, &c., that one whose road (lies through) places belonging, &c. (all as in the last paragraph); then he may circumspectly wander from village to village. (9)
A monk or a nun on the pilgrimage, whose road (lies through) a country where there is no king or many kings or an unanointed king or two governments or no government or a weak government, should, if there be some other place for walking about or friendly districts, not choose the former road for their voyage. The Kevalin says: This is the reason : The ignorant populace might bully or beat, &c., the mendicant, &c. (all as in § 9). (10)
A monk or a nun on the pilgrimage, whose road lies through a forest? which they are not certain of crossing in one or two or three or four or five days, should, if there be some other place for walking about or friendly districts, not choose the former road for their voyage. (11)
The Kevalin says : This is the reason: During
the Varvara, Sarvara, Pulindra, &c.; the non-Aryans are those who live not in the 364 countries.
i Viham, forest, as explained in the third lesson. But the commentator here explains it, a journey of some days.
