Jaina Ethics

SR No.: 001334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dayanand Bhargav
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 314
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Principle
File Size: 15 MB

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Jaina Ethics that in cases of emergency a tendency to keep many things, even against the precepts of the Mülasūtras, did develop :1
1. Tālika-shoes to protect oneself from thorns. 2. Puțaka-shoes to protect oneself from cold.
3. Vardhna-stitching instruments to bind the torn soles of the shoes.
4. Košaka--protector of nails.
5. Kștti— a piece of skin to be worn if clothes were stolen..
6. Sikkaka-pingoes for hanging the alms-bowl. 7. Kāpotikā-carrier of ill monks. 8. Pippalaka-razor. 9. Sūci--needle. 10. Arika-to stitch the soles of shoes. 11. Nakharadana-nail-cutter, 12. Sastrakośa—an instrument to mark the nerves etc. 13. Nandibhājana-pot for begging. 14. Dharmakaraka—a pot with straining arrangement for
water.
15. Paratirthakarana-apparel of heretics to be used in emergency.
16. Gulikā—already explained under satya. 2 17. Khola—already explained under satya.
The inscriptions bear testimony to the fact that Jaina monks were even granted gifts of land by their royal patrons.3
ild not prevent us from appreciating the high standards of the Faina code of morality under the vow of non-possession for a monk.
The monk is to abandon not only possession of external objects but also of such ideas as, being alien to the nature of the self, may be termed as inner possessions. Such possessions are fourteen in number :
(i) False belief (ii-iv) Three sex passions
(v) Laughter
1. Byhatkalpabhāsya, Vol. III, 2883-2892. 2. Supra, p. 153-154.
3. Epigraphia Indica, pp. 232-240. (1088 A.C.)