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SANNYASA DHARMA
The aryakā does not visit the house of a layman alone or without purpose. She is allowed a single robe which is to cover her entire body, from head to foot. In all other respects she conducts herself as a saint of the opposite sex. The aryakā is not qualified, as such, to aspire for the pandita-pandita' death, 'but she expects to reach it, from a male body, in a subsequent incarnation. The reason for this is to be found in the fact that a female body is not like a male body in all respects, so that salvation is not possible for a female from the female forma. Short of this, however, there is no other difference between the two, the male saint and the aryaka (nun), and the latter obtains heaven as the result of her asceticism, when, destroying the liability to be re-born in the female form, she appears in the heavenly regions in the male body of a deva (a resident of the heavenly regions). In her subsequent re-birth amongst men she will retain the male sex, and will then be qualified for sal. vation through the pandita-pandita mode of passage from 'death' to Life Eternal in Nirvāna. The aryakā sits down to take her food, but in other respects fol. lows the rales by which saints of the opposite sex are governed.
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