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268 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
IV. Rules as to Means of Livelihood —contd.
Vanaprastha Sannyasi
has collected, let him severally prepare the sacrificial cakes (purodasa) and the boiled messes (Karu) as the law directs.”
VI. 12 “Having offered those most pure sacrificial viands, consisting of the produce of the forest, he may use the remainder for himself (mixed with) salt prepared by himself.”
VI. 26 “Making no effort (to procure) things that give pleasure chaste, sleeping on the bare ground, not caring for any shelter, dwelling at the roots of trees.”
VI. 27 “From Brahmans (who live as) ascetics; let him receive alms, (barely sufficient) to support life, or from other householders of the twice-born (castes) who reside in the forest.”
VI. 28 “Or (the hermit) who dwells in the forest) may bring (food) from a village, receiving it either in a hollow dish (of leaves) in (his naked) hand, or in a broken earthern dish, and may eat eight mouthfuls.”
independent (of external help) entirely abstaining from sensual enjoyment with himself for his only companion he shall live in this world desiring the bliss (of final liberation).”
VI. 50 “Neither by explaining prodigies and omens, nor by skill in astrology and palmistry nor by giving advice and by the exposition (of the Sastras) let him, ever seek to obtain alms.”
VI. 51 “Let him not (in order to beg) go near a house filled with hermits, Brahmanas, birds, dogs, or other mendicants.”
V. Rules as to Food
Vanaprastha Sannyasi
VI. 13 “Let him eat vegetables that grow on dry land or in water, flowers, roots and fruits, the productions of pure trees and oils extracted from forest-fruits.”
VI. 55 “Let him go to beg once a day, let him not be eager to obtain a large quantity (of alms); for an ascetic who eagerly seeks alms, attaches himself also to sensual enjoyments.”
VI. 14 “ Let him avoid honey, flesh VI. 56 “ When no smoke ascends and mushrooms growing on the from (the kitchen) when the pestle