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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Requisite in the Rainy Season :
We shall presently see that the number of 'aupagrāhika' (of occasional use) requisites was doubled in the rainy season.212
But besides the usual articles consisting of garment, alms, bowl, blanket and broom, the Kalpasūtra213 and the Daśāśrutaskandhaniryukti214 prescribe three more pots to be used only in the rainy season for the purpose of depositing excreta, urine and cough.
The monk was allowed to ask for only those requisites to the householder which were of use to him and which were already in the possession of the householder. If he asked anything which the layman did not have, then there was a possibility of the householder stealing or buying that article for the sake of the monk who, however, could not accept such.215 Residence :
Besides the mode of stationary life in the rainy season, the monk had to take resort to some sort of residence or place of shelter during winter and summer also. We have alreay seen that he was allowed to stay for one night in a village and for five nights in a town. It may be noted that the Chedasūtras permit a monk to stay at certain places for a period of one or two months.216
The Chedasūtras corroborate the rule laid down in the Angas which asked a monk to obtain permission from the owner before occupying a residence.217 That was compulsory even when they had to stay in the streets. They had to seek permission of even the widowed daughter of the owner if the former stayed with the latter. Proper and Improper Residences :
Such places as contained scattered corn of different types, or jars of wine or of water, where fire activity (joī) was carried on either at day or at night, where there were scattered lumps of flesh (piņda), or milk (khīra), or curds (dahi), or butter (navanīä), or oil (tella), or ghee (sappi), or molasses (phāņiya), or sakkuli or sihiriņī, or where there was grass (tana) or which were full of cobwebs or wall-paintings, were deemed unfit for the monks.218
212. Ogha-N. 726: Comm. p. 217b. 213. Kalp. Sāmā. 56 (p. 308). 214. V. 84. 215. Kalp. Sāmā. 19 (p. 298). 216. Brh.kalp. 1, 6. 217. Vav. 8, 10-11; 7; 20-21. 218. Bệh.kalp. 2, 1-12; 4, 28-31; 1, 6-34.