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29. It is prohibited to an ascetic to wear hair longer than that which covers a cow. The night of the commencement of the fast must not pass before the ascetie has shaved his head. It should afterwards be shaven monthly, otherwise cut with scissors every fortnight, and shaved at the end of six months, or at any rate, at the end of a year.
23. It is prohibited during the fast to use any angry or provokiny language. He or she who does so is not to be allowed to remain in the community.
24. If on account of words that have passed between parties, a quarrel arise, mutual forgiveness is to be asked and granted, the elder disciple is to ask forgiveness of the younger, and the younger of the elder. Self-restraint is also to be exercised by each individually, and the exercise pressed upon others. Those who practise self-control are to be venerated, those who do not are not to be vene.. rated. Self-control is the chief of all religious exercises.
25. Three different cleanings are enjoined of asceties-the morning picking up of impurities, the midday sweeping, and the evening washings.
26. Ascetics when going in quest of provisious
* This translation is according to the letter. It may perhaps only incan that there are to be three daily cleanings of the place of these three kinds.
