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water must be strained; unstrained water is entirely prohibited. It is to be used according to measure also, and taken in limited quantities, even although thirst is not thereby quenched.
10. The ascetic may receive from householders to the extent of four solid and five liquid articles of diet, or five solid and four liquid, and among these as much salt as will season his provisions. But he is only to take for that day's consumption, he is not to go out in search of provisions a second time.
11. Ascetics during the lenten season are not permitted to enter a house till they have passed seven from that of their usual abode. Opinions vary as to whether cottages and such like are to be reckoned among the seven or not.
12. Ascetics who receive cooked food in the hand, are prohibited from going out in quest of alms while it rains, whether the rain be heavy or light. An ascetic who has received food, and consumed a part of it abroad, is not permitted to continue his meal if it begins to rain, but he must cover up with his one hand the food he holds in the other, and retire to a shed or cave*, or the root of a tree,
* The original here is Lena; the Sans. is 2G and Euth Lena is the name still given to the caves in which Buddhist and other sacred relics or images are found. Perhaps the best translation here would be Hermitage.
