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ÅXÂRÂNGA SOTRA.
A monk or a nun may accept clothes which are fit, strong, lasting, to be worn, pleasant and fit for a mendicant; for they are pure and acceptable. (16)
A monk or a nun should not wash his clothes, rub or wipe them with ground drugs, &c., because they are not new.
A monk or a nun should not clean or wash his clothes in plentiful water, because they are not new. (17)
A monk or a nun should not make his clothes undergo the processes (prohibited in § 17), because they have a bad smell. (18)
A monk or a nun wanting to air or dry in the sun) their clothes, should not do so on the bare ground or wet earth or rock or piece of clay containing life, &c. (see II, 1, 5, $ 2). (19)
A monk or a nun wanting to air or dry in the sun) their clothes, should not hang them for that purpose on a post of a house, on the upper timber of a door-frame, on a mortar, on a bathing-tub, or on any such-like above-ground place, which is not well fixed or set, but shaky and movable. (20)
A monk or a nun wanting to air or dry (in the sun) their clothes, should not lay them for that purpose on a dyke, wall, rock, stone, or any such-like above-ground place, &c. (21)
A monk or a nun wanting to air or dry in the sun) their clothes, should not do it on a pillar, a raised platform, a scaffold, a second story, a flat roof, or any such-like above-groạnd place, &c. (22)
* If the garment falls on the ground, it would come in contact with dust, &c., then it would contain living beings and be no more pure.
