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intervene, he will leave off at once, and will then only rinse his mouth out but will not swallow even a drop of water to quench his thirst. The saint takes his food standing, to avoid cultivating a sense of attachment for the place or the people. For the same reason, he will not indulge in conversation with any one while eating, and will not stop a moment after taking his meal, except to impart religious instruction, when requested to do so.
With reference to the dayaka dosa, already enumerated (see doșa No. 28), a person is considered unseemly if he is an eunuch, if he is engaged in such an occupation as dressing a child, or if he bas attended a funeral, or has vomitted or answered a call of nature, if he has blood on his person, or is suffering from a fainting fit, disease or pain, or is scratching his limbs, or is addicted to drinking, or is not properly dressed (the Mulachara, 468). He who is extremely young or extremely old, who is himself engaged in eating his food, who is blind, who has been reclining against a wall, who is sitting perched up on high or on low ground, who is engaged in bathing, or in plastering his place with cow-dung and the like, or in making, kindling, fanning, stirring up or in extinguishing a fire, is also not a proper person to offer food to a saint. A nun and a slave are likewise disqualified for offering food to saints; so is a woman that is five months or more advanced in pregnancy and also the one that is giving a suck to her child at the time (ibid. 469-470).
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