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(5) To finish eating while it is no time for alms so as to avoid the chance of offering a donation—that is called violating the fixed time. 31
Failures-of-conduct Connected with the Saṁlekhana-vrata :
(1) On viewing the fortunes like worship, honour etc. done to oneself to get tempted by them and to long for life that is called wishing for life.
(2) On viewing that nobody comes to offer worship, honour etc. to oneself, to get bored and hence to long for death-that is called wishing for death.
(3) Affection for friends—or for sons etc. as for friends. (4) Refreshing the memory of past pleasures.
(5) To wish for some sort of enjoyment as a result of penance and renunciation.
All the failures of conduct enumerated above, when they are practised intentionally and out of crookedness, are of the form of an utter violation of the vrata concerned and hence are in fact the cases of misconduct; on the other hand, when they are practised out of carelessness which in its turn is born of forgetfulness they are the cases of failure-of-conduct proper. 32.
An Account of Dāna or Donation :
For the sake of rendering benefit to renounce a thing belonging to oneself—that is called donation. 33.
The special merit of a donation depends on the special merit of the procedure adopted, the thing donated, the donor and the donee. 34.
The duty of donation is the very root of all the five virtues of life. Hence a development of it is, from the ultimate point of view, the basis for an enhancement of the remaining virtues while from the practical point of view it is the basis for the balance obtaining in human arrangements.
Donation means offering to someone else a thing come in
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