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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i.e. clothes dyed with red-clay.1 Various articles like the matta or dagavāraga, gaduka, dyamani, lottiya, ullamkaya, vāraga, caddaga, kavvaya etc. were kept by the Parivrājakas.? Of these the first two were the earthen-ware pots, while the rest of them appear to have been wooden pots mant for keeping water. Sikkaga,' or a net-work of strings for hanging anything in, is mentioned as a necessary object of their ritualistic paraphernalia. 4 These wandering monks were usually held in respect by the public as can be judged from the fact that the Jaina monks were directed to keep the paraphernalia of the Parivrājakas in order to save themselves during the unusual social or political circumstances.
(vi) Ājivaga—The sect of the Ajīvagas ( Ājīvakas ) was an ancient one and Gośāla, the third leader of the sect, was a contemporary of Lord Mahāvīra. They were naked ascetics and because of their nakedness, they have usually been confounded with the Digambaras by the modern scholars. Even I-Tsing during the 7th century A. D. makes the same mistake. They undoubtedly belonged to an independent sect and were usually versed in the eight-fold mahānimittas which they acquired through rigorous penances. Doctrines of the Ājí vagas have nowhere been explained in the NC. Yet, constant references to this sect reveal them to have been a popular sect of the time. In his two astrological works, the
1. Kādambari, p. 108. 2. मत्तो दगवारगो गडुअओ आयमणी लोटिया कट्ठमओ, उल्लंकओ कमओ, वारओ
yazifoqi si tu oft TH-NC. 3, p. 343. 3. futai , td AT aftal -NC. 2, p. 38. 4. Sikkaga, and sikkaganamtaga are mentioned in the NC, as two diffe
rent objects which were kept by the Parivrājakas and the Kāpālikas
respectively.-NC. 2, p. 38. 5. afragraf Tretti FATUITI FIT are
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i -Bhagavati Tikā, 1.2, p. 87. 6. Kalyānavijaya, Sramaya Bhagavāna Mahāvira, p. 281. 7. NC. 2, pp. 118, 200, 332; NC. 3, p. 414.