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
263 Getting one's clothes stitched by a heretic (annaütthiya) or by the house-owner (gāratthiya) was strictly forbidden. Taking out long threads from cotton, and having long ends to one's sanghāļi (gown) were also deemed transgressions.269
Use and Exchange of clothes :
No exchange of clothes was allowed without taking the consent of the gani, but clothes were to be given to those who were unable (physically) to procure them.270
Giving only one or more than three padiyāņiyas (?), or binding the pieces of clothes together, giving them more than three knots (?), and using excessive clothing for more than one and a half months were treated as transgressions.271
Clothing and Nudity:
A monk who put on clothing among those who did not put it (acela) or vice versa had to undergo punishment.272 At least among the Svetāmbaras, nudity did not seem to have any compulsion about it, for, even though the Byhatkalpa273 describes the Jinakalpasthiti (or the stage of a "naked monk”:274 as translated by SCHUBRING) as the fifth step in a monk's life, yet even the Jinakalpika monks used clothes as is proved by the statement in the Oghāniryukti which allowed three clothes (pacchāgā) to them.275
Requisites (Oggaha):
The list of essential requisites of a monk in the Angas consisted of clothing (vattha), almsbowl (pāya), blanket (kambala) and the broom (pāyapuñchana), and the whole mode of denoting the purity of these articles was expressed by the phrase 'ahāpadirūvam uggaham ogiņhittā' i.e. 'accepting the proper requisites'. The acceptance of such articles of use was regulated by some very general rules.
The Chedasūtras and the Niryuktis refer to a number of other articles besides those found in the Angas, and even those which are to be found in the Angas are dealt with in details.
269. Nis. 5, 12-13, 24. 270. Ibid., 18, 21-64. 271. Ibid., 1, 47-56. 272. Ibid., 11, 87-90. 273. 6, 11. 274. 1.A., Vol. 39, p. 267. 275. V. 669.