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unable to avoid sinless business then he should give up such trades as involve cruelty to animals.
Aticharas.*
Such business as the following fifteen should not be practised by those who have taken the seventh vow.
1. Making and selling charcoal.
2. Agriculture, horticulture or gardening.
3. Making and selling carts, etc., or driving vehicles belonging to Oneself.
4. Driving or plying other people's vehicles, either as a servant, or hired.
5. Blasting rocks, digging mines, ploughing,
etc.
6. Ivory business, necessitating the killing of elephants.
7. Lac, or any similar substance. caught in it.
8. Liquids, for the same reason.
9.
Poison.
10. Fur, hair.
The portion till the seventh Vrata is given by Mr. Gandhi, and we could not get the rest of the Vratas treated by him, I have therefore arranged to supply this gap, from the atichar of the seventh Vrata, till the end of the book. Ed.
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