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OF TIIE HINDUS.
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Adopting, as a general guide, the rules of original works, the Danaí is distinguished by carrying a small Dand, or wand, with several processes or projections from it, and a piece of cloth dyed with red ochre, in which the Brahmanical cord is supposed to be enshrined, attached to it: he shaves his hair and beard, wears only a cloth round his loins, and subsists upon food obtained ready - dressed from the houses of the Bralmans once a day only, which he deposits in the small clay pot that he carries always with him: he should live alone, and near to, but not within a city; but this rule is rarely observed, and in general the Dandís are found in cities collected like other mendicants in Maths!. The Dandí has no particular time
अनग्निरनिकेतः स्याद्राममन्नार्थमाश्रयेत् ।
उपेक्षको ऽशंकुसुको मुनिभीवसमाहितः ॥ “Departing from his house, taking with him pure implements, his water-pot, and staff', keeping silence, unallured by desire of objects near him, let him enter into the fourth order."
“Let him have no culinary fire, no domicile, let him when very hungry go to the town for food, let him patiently bear disease, let him study to know God, and fix his attention on God alone." ! These are all founded on the following texts of MANU:
क्लप्तकेशनखश्मश्रुः पात्री दण्डी कुसम्भवान । विचरेन्नितयो नित्यं सर्वभूतान्यपीडयन् ॥ एककालं चरेद्वेषं न प्रसज्जेत विस्तरे। भैक्षे प्रसक्तो हि यतिर्विषयेष्वपि सज्जति ॥ विधूमे सन्नमुसले व्यङ्गारे भुक्तवज्जने । वृत्ते सरावसम्पाते भिक्षां नित्यं यतिश्चरेत् ॥ अलाभे न विषादी स्याल्लामे चैव न हर्षयेत् । प्राणयाविकमात्रः स्यान्मात्रासङ्गाद्विनिर्गतः ॥
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