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himself with regard to the thirteen actions productive of Karma, fourteen kinds of living beings, and the fifteen places of punishment of the wicked. He is always aware of the sixteen gathās, eighteen kinds of continence, and nineteen ñātadhyajanas (Nāyā), twenty-one fobidden actions, and twenty-two troubles. He always exerts himself with regard to the twenty-three lectures of the Sūtrakṣitānga, the twenty-five clauses, and the twentysix chapters of the daśās. He always exerts himself with regard to the twenty-seven virtues of the laity and the twenty-eight lectures of the Prakalpa, the twenty-nine causes of wrong knowledge, the thirty causes of delusion, the thirtyone qualifications of the perfected ones, the thiry-two pure operations of the mind, speech, and body, and the thirty-three articles regulating the intercourse between monks, especially pupils and teachers.?
THE HOUSELESS MONK
· Renouncing his wife, a sage should know and give up those attachments which enslave men. A monk possessing self-restraint should abstain from killing, stealing, dying, physical intercourse, and greed. He should not long for a pleasant dwelling house. He should happily live in a burial place, in a deserted-house, beneath a tree, in solitude, etc. A well-controlled monk should live in a place which is not much too crowded and where no women live. He should abstain from building a house. Full of compassion for living beings he should neither cook nor cause others to cook. He should cause nobody to cook because beings, living in water, corn, wood, etc., are destroyed in the process. A monk should not light a fire. He should not in his thoughts long for gold and silver. He is not to engage in buying and selling. He who is to live on alms should beg, not buy. He should collect his alms in parts and contentedly go at his begging hour, whether he gets alms or not. A sage should not cat for the sake of the delicious taste of the food but for the sustenance of his life. He should mcdi. tate on truc things only, committing no sins and owning no property. He should walk about carcless about his body till
. Ullora, XXXI
