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him, and having obtained his leave, then go abroad.
19. It is prohibited to any male or female ascetic to be without a couch to sleep on. If they have no bed to sleep on, or if it be too high or too low, if not rightly put together, if not of proper dimensions, if heavy and difficult to move, if not, frequently wiped and kept clean, it will be difficult to keep from killing small insects, and so violating the duties of humanity. On the contrary, if possessed of the opposite qualities, it will be easy to perform the duties of humanity.
20. Ascetics are ordered to clean and prepare three different places at a distance from their usual abode, for the three natural excretions. This is not needed in the hot and cold season, but it is required in the rainy season, on account of the multitude of insects, seeds, flowers, &c., which are there produced.
21. Ascetics are ordered to restrain emitting phlegm, or voiding either of the other two natural excretions*, (except in the above-mentioned places).
* These, of course, are you and in Mágadhi, GETT and that and delicately expressed in Gujarathi by aslalfa and agaifa.
