History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.949

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12-15) provides¹⁸⁷¹ that a *sannyāsin* was to change his residence frequently, was to stay at the boundary of the village or in a temple, or in an empty house or at the bottom of a tree and should constantly live in a forest. Śaṅkha (VII. 6) states that an ascetic should stay in an empty house or he may stay wherever he may be when the sun sets. This provision of Śaṅkha is set aside by the Kalivarjya text. Another meaning of the words, according to Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa on the Nir. S. (p. 1310), is that this runs counter to the recommendation of Manu VI. 56 that an ascetic should go for begging to the houses in a village in the evening when all smoke from kitchens has ceased i. e. by this text he is allowed to beg in the noon. In a way this appears to be a better explanation.