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the householder to take into consideration desa - region and kala - time (besides the other three factors) while giving gift. Morcover, prior to treating this subject in Kalpa 43, we rather see the sprouts of his innovative or progressive attitude, as he declares in v.476 his concerned ideology:
Dvau hi dharmau grhasthanam laukikah paralaukikah, Lokasrayo bhavedādyah parah syādāgamāśrayah.
The Code of Conduct or righteous life of householders has two sides : One concerns this world - his day-to-day practical life; and the other relates to the next world - his spiritual pursuits. And he, as a practical thinker, surther remarks (v.479):
Samsāra-vyavahāre tu svatah Siddhc vrthagamah.
Social practices are self-cxplanatory; scriptuses are not needed to expose or explain them.
Now coming back to somadevasuri's treatment of dāna in general, and his additional classification of the pătra - recipients sit sor gift or charity (vs.808-817) in particular, I would once again stress on the Acarya's foresight, originality, innovative and progressive attitude in this regard and respectsully mark him as an astute yugacikitsaka - physician of the age (as usually are the Jainācāryas, to a more or less degree), who could feel the pulse of his region and time, and prescribe such requisite soico- rcligious practices with a vicw to keeping Jainism not only intact but also on progressive line.
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