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peacock feathers for removing insects from their person, books and the like, without injuring them. As regards begging, for food, a kşullaka, if he belong to any of the three higher castes should eat only what he gets from one household, but he may visit five houses, one after another if he happen to be aśūdra. In no case should he call at another house after getting sufficient food for the day, but should sit down and eat his repast at the place where the quantity of his daily rations is completed. While calling for food, he should not penetrate beyond the court-yard, hall or vestibule, nor ask or beckon for food, but should only wish the inmates dharma lābha (may you obtain spiritual merit) and recite the ņamokāra mantra. If he be not observed or welcomed with due respect, he should immediately depart from that place and proceed to another. In no case should he call at that house a second time that day. The ellaka also observes these rules, but he eats what is obtained from one kitchen alone. Both the kşullaka and the ellaka eat only once a day, and go out in search of food between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning.
Jain, Champat Rai (1917), “Ratnakarnda-śrāvakāchāra (or The Householder's Dharma)”,
p. 69-70.
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