Aspects of Jaina Monasticism

SR No.: 001332
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nathmal Tatia, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 175
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 10 MB

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Parihåravišuddhika or Suddhaparihārika
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be adopted for the next eighteen medial, and minimum extent of months : The same number of new penance undertaken by the practimonks should be admitted from tioners in the three seasons. among those that may be willing to enter the group. The remaining Nun
Winter Summer candidates should be kept in reserve Meals Season and engaged in self-assessment Dropped (tulanā) 197 as regards their compe- Maximum 12 meals 10 meals 8 meals tence. Their deportment should be Medial
10 meals 8 meals 6 meals in harmony with that of the assis. Minimum 8 meals 6 meals 4 meals tants and the sub-assistants. If an adequate number of candidates (10) Breaking of Fast (Pāraṇa) arrives, then together with them, and Change of Duties: At the end they would constitute a separate of the twelve meal penance (dvādagroup (gaña).
sam tapah), the practitioners (assisIn case no one has left the group tants) break their fast by ācāmla at the end of the first eighteen (subsistence on a single-meal-a-day months, the new candidates should consisting of saltless cereal of any
ked to wait till their number one kind). They beg alms sepacomes to nine, so that a new group rately, with secret resolves in respect could be constituted.
of the last five eşaņās. They do (7) Prāyaścitta: The leader of
not partake of food, etc., jointly.198 each group engaged in this course
The remaining participants of the is competent enough to prescribe
group, viz. the leader and the subexpiation according to the offence
assistants would constitute a sub. that might be admitted by the par
group, eating and living together ticipants. This rule applies to
(sambhoga) and undertake ācāmla both the assistants and sub-assis
everyday. The leader, however, tants.
does not go on the begging tour, The assistants and the sub-assis- which is done by the sub-assistants. tants would bow down, avow The assistants observe the penance (aloyanā) and vow not to commit for the first six months. Similarly, (paccakkhāņa) any offence in the the sub-assistants also do the same, future.
while others discharge the function (8) Silence : They practise of the sub-assistants. At the end their Course in silence, excepting of the first twelve months, the occasional queries on and study of leader observes the penance. Then the scriptural texts and their mean- anyone among the rest is made the ing. On special unavoidable leader, while others discharge the occasions, a member can express function of the assistants or subhimself in respect of his bare neces- assistants according to their fitsities and activities.
ness, 199 there being no incompatibi(9) Penances: The following lity in this arrangement, because the table illustrates the maximum, service to the Order or a group is a