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their hands; they listen to no call to come or wait for food; they permit no food to be brought to them, or to be specially prepared for them, or to be received by them on invitation; they accept no food from the mouth of the pot or pan in which it is cooked, nor food placed within the threshold or among the firewood or among the pestles, nor food from a couple eating together, or from a woman with child, or a woman giving suck, or a woman in intercourse with a man; nor food which is reduced in times of drought, or when a dog is standing by or where flies are swarming round; they will not eat fish or flesh, nor drink liquor made from rice or the flowers of woodfordia floribunda, nor sour gruel made of unhusked barley; some of them beg only at one house and accept but one handful of food, others beg at two houses and accept two handfuls, others beg at seven houses and accept seven handfuls; some subsist on one gift of food, others on two, others on seven; some take only once a day, others only once in two days, others only once in seven days, others only once a fortnight; in this manner they observe various routines of fasting.
41. 184. दिण्णभइभत्तवेयणा, those who were paid wages either in oash or in food; दत्तं भृतिभक्तरूपं द्रव्यभोजनलक्षणं वेतनं मूल्यं येषां ते. The potter सद्दालपुत्त had two classes of servants, those engaged in his potteries and those engaged as salesmon. करए वारए..उट्टियाओ are pots of various sizes.
48. 187. महामाहणे, & great learned man, महाब्राह्मणThe Jains Coms, are however in the habit of explaining माहण ás one who does not do injury to creatures; महा
