Cultural Study of Nisitha Curni

SR No.: 001743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Madhu Sen
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 432
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Literature
File Size: 23 MB

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MATERIAL CULTURE
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made from five-sensed beings (pamcendiya-nispanna). These different varieties of clothes may be grouped under two heads : (i) the common clothes and (ii) the costly clothes. The Jaina monks were allowed to wear only the common clothes, while all varieties were worn by the people in society.
Common Clothes-- The Jaina monks were allowed to wear five varieties of coarse clothes which were comparatively cheap. These were : (i) jaṁgiya, (ii) bhaṁgiya, (iii) sāņiya, (iv) pottaga and (v) tiridapațța. 2
(i) yangiya-yangiya is explained as cloth manufactured from the body or hair of the moving beings (jangama-satta, tasa-jiva).. Five varieties of the jamgiya cloth have been mentioned in the text. These were : unniya, utțiya, miyalomiya, kutava and kitta.* Unniya was the cloth manufactured from the sheep's wools, while uttiya was from the camel's hair. Miyalomiya was the cloth made from deer's hair.? Kutava and kitta are also mentioned as two types of hair (romavi sesa) which were common in certain regions but were not available in the region to which the author belonged. Kutava has been explained as varakka, while kitta or kittima is mentioned as -"cloth manufactured from the residue of the same material.'' Perhaps the author means to say that the best part of the hair (varakka) was used for making the kutava cloth and that the kitta was manufactured from the remaining inferior portion of
1. NC. 3, p. 566; also Bịh. V!. 1, p. 174. 2. NC. 2, pp. 56-57; Brh. VI. 4, pp. 1017-18; Ācārānga, II. 5. 1. 364, 368. 3. GAATTO 399afcat foceront Hora1NC. 2, p. 57, also p. 39; Byh. V.
4, p. 1017. 4. NC. 2, p. 57. 5. gout' f STEMT TETT yoifa, deA CAT 439 foisgt CathtopaNC.
2, p. 223. 6. BETHE _NC. 2, p. 57. 7. fizime tha fhihiNC. 2, p. 57. 8. gaffet la CaÈhda a FAT, FE Scaffol—NC. 2, p. 57. 9. 3Toùt stuifaictat acomit at fani fi gaf aa 9181_NC. 2, p. 57; also | NC, 2, p. 400.