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अध्याय-७
The householder with minor-vows (aņuvrata) is also equipped with these supplementary vows: withdrawing from activity with regard to the direction - digvirati, withdrawing from activity with regard to the country - deśavirati, withdrawing from purposeless sin - anarthadandavirati, periodic concentration - sāmāyikavrata, fasting at regular intervals – proşadhopavāsavrata, limiting consumable and non-consumable things – upabhogaparibhogapaimāņavrata, and partaking of one's food after feeding the ascetic – atithisamvibhāgavrata.
The word 'virati' – withdrawing from - is added to each of the first three. Thus, it should be read as withdrawing from the direction - digvirati, withdrawing from the country or region – deśavirati, and withdrawing from purposeless sinful activity – anarthadandavirati. These three are called 'gunavrata' as the word 'vrata' is added on to every one of these. Further, the vow of concentration-sāmāyikavrata, fasting at regular intervals - proṣadhopavāsavrata, limiting consumable and non-consumable things - upabhogaparibhogapaimāņavrata, and partaking of one's food after feeding the ascetic - atithisamvibhāgavrata, are the other supplementary vows which are called 'śikṣāvrata'. The householder who observes all these seven vows, besides, of course, the five minor vows mentioned already, is called 'viratāvirata', i.e., the one who observes abstinence as well as non-abstinence. It is explained 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, etc., is the vow of abstinence with regard to direction -digvirati. Since there is no injury (hiņsā) caused by the householder to one- or more-sensed living beings beyond the fixed boundaries, he is supposed to observe great
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