Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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KALPA SÚTRA.
I now proceed to mention the qualities of the place where the Institute of the Paryushana is to be performed. The Sages remain seventy days in the same place, unless there be a good reason for removing Proper reasons for so doing are the following: Not being able to find a proper place to sleep on; the difficulty of procuring provisions ; the occurrence of any disaster ; the fear of hostile sovereigns, disease, or bodily pain. In such cases it is lawful to remove to another place. A place is unfit, if it swarm with insects, if it be otherwise unclean, if there one is kept in dread of musquitoes, fire, or serpents. In such cases it is proper to remove. Again, the Sages should remain after the four months are completed, if the rains continue so as to make the roads impassable on account of the mud. Then only, however, should the Sages remain beyond the month of Kártik. Places suitable for carrying on the religious exercises of the season are places where there is not much mud, where there are not many creeping insects, where there are no impurities, at a distance from women, where the produce of the cow abounds, where the body of the people is large and respectable, where there are good physicians and medi
to shew the benefit of different forms of religious practice, all tending to prove that different dispositions require different treatment.