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SUPPLEMENTARY VOW OF DIRECTION
one's possessions such as riches, corn, lands and so on of one's own accord is the fifth small vow of limited possessions.
Are these the only peculiarities of the householder, or are there others also ? दिग्देशानर्थदण्डविरतिसामायिकपोषधोपवासोपभोगपरिभोगपरिमाणातिथिसंविभागवतसंपन्नश्च
॥ २१ ॥ Digdeśānarthadandaviratisāmāyikaproşadhopavāsopabhogaparibhogaparimāņālithisaṁvibhāgavrata sampannaśca
(21) 21. Abstaining from activity with regard to direction, country and purposeless sin, periodical concentration, fasting at regular intervals, limiting consumable and non-consumable things, and partaking of one's food after feeding an ascetic, are the minor or supplementary vows.
'Abstaining from' is added to everyone of the termsabstaining from direction, abstaining from country or region, abstaining from purposeless sinful activity. These three are called guna vratas, as the word vrata is added on to every one of these. These enhance the value of the five vows. Similarly the vow of concentration, the vow of fasting, the vow of limiting consumable and non-consumable things, and the vow of offering food to an ascetic, are the other supplementary or minor vows which are called śikṣā vratas. A householder who observes these vows is called viratā virata, i. e. one who observes abstinence as well as non-abstinence. It is as follows. The directions are east, west and so on (the eight corners of the compass with the upward and the downward make up ten). Taking a resolve not to participate in activities beyond set limits in the directions, fixing the boundaries with well-known mountains, rivers, villages, towns, and so on, is the vow of abstinence with regard to direction. Since there is no injury to one-or more-sensed lives beyond the fixed boundaries, one is supposed to observe great vows (outside one's limited field of activity). Though there may be opportunity for gain outside his limited field, he does not direct his thought there. Thus he curbs his desire. The region determined by villages and so on is the country or province. Desisting from activity outside
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