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
(2) Getting into the boat for bad purposes; buying, selling, bringing on credit or exchanging the boat, or making others do so; pushing the boat into the water from the ground or vice versa; helping in taking out a grounded boat; working as a helmsman; getting into a boat which is going up or down the stream; pulling or stopping the boat by a rope; taking out water from the boat by either a pot or an alms-vessel or an earthern vessel (matta); covering the hole in the boat, through which water gets in, by means of hand, foot, leaves or bamboo; or accepting food in the boat.159
(3) Crossing or swimming the following five great rivers twice or thrice within a month: Gangā, Jaüņā, Saraū, Erāvai and Mahi. 160
RESIDENCE :
(1) Not giving accommodation to a co-religionist even when there is ample space at one's disposal.161
(2) Same as above pertaining to nuns.162
(3) Accepting lodging in condemned families.163 STUDY :
(1) Reading with, or accepting a reading from, a heretic, the owner of the lodge, or persons of loose morals and bad behaviour.164
(2) Not studying at four times (? caükāla); studying at an improper time; reading only the lower portions (heţthillaim samosaraņāim); reading in an indistinct tone; not reading the text in the due order (? apattam vāei); or reading only one out of two identical passages.165
(3) Studying, or liking to do so, at early evening (? puvvāë sanjhāë), late evening (pacchimāë sañjhāe), mid-day or midnight; or at the festivals in honour of Indra (Indamaha), Skanda, Yakşa or Bhūta; or on the first days (pratipadā) of Caitra, Aşādha, Bhādrapada or Kārttika.166
(4) Asking more than three questions regarding the Kālikaśruta, and more than seven questions regarding the Ditthivāya.167
159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. 165. 166. 167.
Ibid., 18, 1-20. Ibid., 12, 42. Ibid., 17, 121. Ibid., 17, 122. Ibid., 16, 29. Ibid., 19, 25-36. Ibid., 19, 13-23. Ibid., 19, 8-12. Ibid.