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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S. B. DEO The combination of these seven clothes consisted as follows:
(a) either three strong clothes, or (b) five : some strong and some of a weak texture, or (c) all the seven as old ones.
There was no fixed limit to the number of clothes used by the 'ganacintaka' (the administrator of the gaña). The rest of the monks were allowed to keep neither more nor less number of clothes than laid down.153
The 'Sthavirakalpika monk' used three clothes (two of cotton and one woollen), while the different categories of the 'Jinakalpika' monks used the the following number of clothes:
Jinakalpika
Pāṇipātra (dhāriņaḥ) (Using the hollow of the hand
for eating food).
Pratigrahadhāriņaḥ (Using a begging-bowl).
Aprāvaranā
(Naked)
Saprävaraņā (Wearing clothes)
Aprāvaranā
(Naked)
Saprāvaraņā (Wearing clothes)
4
Monks belonging to category (4) used either one, two or three clothes; those of category (2) used either one cotton garment, or one cotton and one woollen (i.e. two), or two cotton and one woollen (i.e. three) garments.154
That cloth was deemed good which was likely to last at least for a period of six months.155
The measure of the cloth used by the 'Jinakalpika' monks was such that in length it was two fratnis' or four hands, and in breadth it was one and a half hands.156 The length of the cloth used by the 'Sthavirakalpins' was either three and a half or four hands, and the breadth two and a half hands.157 Stitching and Repairs:
Stitching of clothes could be done with the due observance of rules for it, and only when necessary.
153. Ibid. Vol. IV, 3985-50. 154. Ibid. Vol. II, 1087. 155. Ibid. Vol. IV, 3967. 156. Ibid. 3966. 157. Ibid. 3969.