History of Jaina Monachism

SR No.: 001727
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 616
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & History
File Size: 12 MB

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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
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(8) Moyapadimā -(a) Kuddiyā
(b) Mahalliyā (9) The twelve Bhikkhu padimās: māsiyā, domāsiyā, tio, caüo, pañcao,
chao, sattao, padhamā sattarāïndiyā, doccā sattoo, taccā sattao,
ahorāïyā, and egarāïyā. (10) Sattasattamiyā, Atthatthamiya, Navanavamiya, Dasadasāmiyā. (1) Bhadda-It consisted of the practice of kāyotsarga for four pra
haras facing every direction. It was thus completed in two days
and two nights. (2) Subhadda-The commentator is unable to explain this, and he
remarks 'adrstatvena tu noktā'. Mahābhaddā—Practising kāyotsarga for a day and a night facing each of the four directions. It was completed in four days
and four nights. (4) Savvaöbhaddā--Practising kāyotsarga for a day and a night fac
ing each of the ten quarters. It was finished in ten days and
ten nights. (5) Moyapadimā-It was either lesser (khuddiyā) or greater
(mahalliyā). It pertained to bodily excreta or dirt (praśravaņavişayā), and was practised outside the village either in autumn or in summer. If a monk started it after taking food, then he had to perform a fast upto the fourteenth meal (caturdaśabhaktena samāpyate). If he started it without taking meals, then it was completed by a fast upto the sixteenth meal. This was the prac
tice adopted in the lesser type of moya. The greater moyapadimā resembled the lesser one in all details except that the monk made a fast upto the sixteenth meal if he started it after taking his meals. Otherwise, he made a fast upto the eighteenth meal.
(6) Candapadimā—In this, the monk either increased or decreased
the number of morsels of food according to the increasing or decreasing digits of the moon. It was of two types: Javamajjhā and
Vaïramajjhā. The former was that in which the monk took only one morsel of food on the first day of the bright fortnight, and went on increasing the morsels so that he took fifteen morsels on the full moon day. Then taking the same number of morsels on the first day of the dark fortnight, he decreased the number by one morsel every day, and took only one morsel on the new moon day. Thus it resembled the following figure: