Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

SR No.: 001615
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 686
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Canon
File Size: 12 MB

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
[Ch. VII
sanyojanadosadustapānabhojana, while faultless or pure food and drink are divided into three kinds, viz vītāngāra-pānubhojana, vītadhūma-pānabhojana and sanyojanavipramuktapānabhojana.
Food and drink which are taken by a Niryrantha or a Nirgranthi with infatuation, deep attachment, after receiving them, is called sāngāra pānabhojana, that which are taken by him or her, having a mind consuined with hatred and anger are Sadhüma-pānabhojana, and that which are taken by mixing them with other things for making them tasteful are Sarayojanad93adusta, i.e. polluted by the fault of mixing.
But if they are taken by him or her, without being infatuated or deeply attached to and swayed by hatred and anger and without mixing them with other things for making them palatable, they are called vītāngāra, vītadhūma and saryojana-vipramukta-panahhojana respectively.
Besides these, the taking of the following kinds of food and drink by the monks or nuns involves the act of committing fault on their part, viz. ksetrātikrānta-pānub hojana (food and drink taken before sunrise), kālātikrānta-pānabhojana (that received in the first part of the day and taken in the last part of it), mārgāntikrānta-pānabhojana (that received and taken after crossing the length of half a yojana) and pramāṇātilcrāntapānabhojana (that taken more than the standard measure, i.e. only thirty-two morsels equal to the size of an egg of a hen)."
A Sramana-Nigrantha or a Nirgranthi is to take gastrātīta, sastra-pariņāmita, esita, vesita and samudānika-pānabhojana for practising self-control and asceticism like a snake existing in a hole. The food which is offered by a householder who has given up weapon, mace, garland, (the act of) besmenring his body with sandal paste, (which is free from all kinds of bacterias and lifeless, (which is) not prepared or to be prepared for a monk and not intended for him, uninvited, unpurchased, prepared
1 Bhs., 7, 1, 268.
Ib, 7, 1, 269.