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ÂKÂRÂNGA SOTRA.
SECOND LECTURE,
CALLED
BEGGING FOR A COUCH.
FIRST LESSON. If a monk or a nun want to ask for a lodging, and having entered a village or scot-free town, &c., conceive that lodging to contain eggs, living beings, &c., they should not use it for religious postures, night's-rest, or study. (1)
But if the lodging contains only few eggs or few living beings, &c., they may, after having inspected and cleaned it, circumspectly use it for religious postures, &c. Now, if they conceive that the householder, for the sake of a Nirgrantha and on behalf of a fellow-ascetic (male or female, one or many), gives a lodging which he has bought or stolen or taken, though it was not to be taken nor given, but was taken by force, by acting sinfully towards all sorts of living beings, they should not use for religious postures, &c., such a lodging which has been appropriated by the giver himself, &c. (see II, 1, 1, $ 11).
The same holds good if there be instead of a fellow-ascetic many Sramanas and Brâhmanas, guests, paupers, and beggars. But if the lodging has been
1 Seggå.
* Tahappagare uvassae no thùnam và seggam và nisihiyam và keteggâ. Thâna=sthana is explained kâyotsarga; seggâ= sayyâ, samstâraka; nisihiya=nisithika, svadhyâya; keteggâ=kintayet. The last word is elsewhere translated dadyât.
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