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UTTARADHYAYANA.
A chaste monk should always avoid the company of, and frequent conversation with women. (3)
A chaste monk should avoid observing the body, limbs, and figure of women, their pleasant prattle and oglings. (4)
A chaste monk should avoid listening to the screeching, screaming, singing, laughing, giggling, and crying of women. (5)
A chaste monk should never recall to his mind how he had laughed and played with women, and had enjoyed them, how they became jealous, and what tricks he played to frighten them. (6)
A chaste monk should always avoid well-dressed food and drink which will soon raise his sensuality. (7)
A chaste monk should always eat his food, collected according to the rules, for the sustenance of life, in the prescribed quantity, and at the right time; concentrated in his thoughts he should not eat to excess. (8)
A chaste monk should abstain from ornaments, he should not adorn his body after the fashion of amorous people. (9)
He should always abstain from the five orders of pleasant things: sounds, colours, smells, tastes, and feelings of touch. (10)
A lodging frequented by women, their pleasant talk, their company, and looking at their charms; (11)
Their screeching, screaming, singing, and laughing, eating and sleeping together with them; welldressed food and drink, or partaking of them to excess; (12)
And ornaments and finery1: these pleasant things,
Ittham ka, i. e. ishtam ka. The commentators connect the
