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2.
drugs.
3.
milk.
4.
silver.
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Which can be sold by weight, such as sugar,
Which can be sold by measure, such as oil,
Which can be sold by testing, such as gold,
5. Different kinds of grades of property, such as land, buildings, metals, animals.
Aticharas.
The aticharas of this vow are all based upon the above classification. You limit the quantity you will possess, as your own, and if you keep more than the specified quantity you break the vow; and subterfuges, etc., would be considered as partial transgressions. For instace, when you come to possess grain beyond the limit fixed by you, if you keep the excess part somewhere else, with somebody else, for a time, that is subterfuge. Or marking a gold ring into a tie pin because your number of gold rings is reached, that is subterfuge.
These first five vratas are the minor vratas, previously mentioned. They are so in comparison with the more strict vows of the monk.
The next three are the guna vratas, they help and support the first five.
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