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LECTURE XXIV.
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been brought into its present condition not long ago, which is spacious, has an inanimate surface-layer?, not too near (the village, &c.), not perforated by holes, and is exempt from insects and seeds-in such a place he should leave his excrements, &c. (17, 18)
The five Samitis are thus briefly enumerated, I shall now explain in due order the three Guptis 3. (19)
1. There is, 1. truth; 2. untruth; 3. a mixture of truth and untruth ; 4. a mixture of what is not true, and what is not untrue. The Gupti of mind refers to all four 4 (20)
A zealous monk should prevent his mind from desires for the misfortune of somebody else", from thoughts on acts which cause misery to living beings, and from thoughts on acts which cause their destruction? (21)
2. The Gupti of speech is also of four kinds (referring to the four divisions as in verse 20). (22)
A zealous monk should prevent his speech from (expressing) desires, &c. (as in verse 21). (23)
3. In standing, sitting, lying down, jumping, going, and in the use of his organs, a zealous monk should prevent his body from intimating obnoxious desires,
translation would give a wrong idea, as it would come to the same as the word bilavargita in the next verse.
1 1. e. where the ground has been cleared not long ago by burning the grass, &c.
Ogâdhê, where the animate ground is covered by at least five digits of inanimate matter.
s Viz. of mind (20, 21), of speech (22, 23), and of the body (24, 25).
• See part i, p. 150, note 2. ..Samrambha. 6 Samârambha.
? Ârambha.
