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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
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1. Based on Fasts:
Magnitude of fast.
Food and Drink allowed.
No. of alms-rounds
allowed.
(i) Eating one meal on
every second day.
Water used for making wet
flour, or sesamum, or rice.
Two allowed if food was
not sufficient.
(ii) ..... every 3rd day.
Water-wash of sesamum,
chaff, or barley.
Three.
(ii) ... every 4th day.
Sour gruel, pure
water.
(hot)
Three.
(iv) More prolonged.
Hot water with no rice.
More than three.
(v) Total abstinence from
food.
Filtered hot water limited
in quantity but sufficient.
(vi) Normal, i.e. eating one
meal a day.
All permitted drinks,
2. Based on Dattis :
Either five dattis of food and five of drink, or four of food and five of drink or vice versa, plus one datti of salt for preserving his meat. He was not allowed to beg again. 3. Based on the number of houses :
Monks and nuns who restricted the number of houses which they visited for the sake of getting food, were allowed to go to a place "where rice was cooked if it was the seventh house from their place of stay."207 Nature of Food Accepted :
Monks and nuns accepted only such food as was cooked before their arrival.208 So also they did not eat it so long as their body was wet.209
Accepting food for and giving it to a sick monk was not allowed unless permitted by the ācārya.210 Monks in good health were not to accept milk, butter, ghee, curds, oil, sugar, liquor, meat or honey.211
207. Ibid., 20-27. (pp. 298-301). 208. Ibid., 33-35 (p. 302). 209. Ibid., 42 (p. 303). 210. Ibid., 14-16 (p. 297). 211. Ibid., 17 (pp. 297-98).
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