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## Pinḍaniyukti: An Observation
**63** angrily says, "What do you care?" In such a situation, there is no fear of ādhākarma. The muni can eat without any doubt. Even if it is not known whether the food is pure or not, the niyuktikāra has given the solution that if the muni is seeking pure food appropriately, then even while consuming ādhākarma food, he is pure, i.e., he does not bind karma. If he is inappropriately consuming ādhākarma food from a mental perspective, then even while consuming prāsuka and eṣaṇīya food, he binds inauspicious karma.
In this context, the niyuktikāra has hinted at two stories. In one, a muni consumes pure food but mentally consumes it with the intellect of an ādhākarmic saṃgha-bhakta, due to which he binds karma. In the other, a māsa-kṣapaka muni, while engaged in the search for pure food, consumes ādhākarmic kheer and attains kaivalya. Explaining the reason, the author says that the first muni violated the command of the Bhagavān, therefore, even the enjoyment of pure food became a cause of binding of sin. The second, however, obeyed his command, therefore, even while consuming impure food, he crossed the ocean of samsara. In this context, the author has also given the example of the sunrise and moonrise gardens.
**The rule of consuming ādhākarma in the time of the Tīrthankaras**
Due to being ṛjuprajña sādhus and sādhvīs, except for the first and last Tīrthankaras, the remaining twenty-two Tīrthankaras and the Tīrthankaras of the Mahāvideha region have given so much leeway in ādhākarma piṇḍa that the food is not kalpya for the sādhus for whom it is made, but the rest of the sādhus can consume it. The bhāṣyakāra has presented a detailed discussion of this context. If the saṃgha of Bhagavān Ṛṣabha and Ajita are together, then if someone makes ādhākarma food for the entire saṃgha, then it is not kalpya for the sādhus of both the pañcayāmika and cātur-yāmika saṃghas. If ādhākarma food is made for the sādhus of Ṛṣabha, then it is acceptable for the cātur-yāmika sādhus of Ajita. If ādhākarma food is made for the cātur-yāmika sādhus, then that food is not kalpya for both.
If ādhākarma is made individually for a pañcayāmika sādhus of Ṛṣabha, then...
1. Piṇi 89/8, Mavṛ P. 73, 74.
2. Piṇi 90, Mavṛ P. 74.
3. Piṇi 90/1-4, for the expansion of both stories, see Pari 3, Katha Saṃ. 13, 14.
4. Piṇi 91, for the expansion of the story, see Pari 3, Katha Saṃ. 15.
5. Bṛbhā 3541, Tī P. 986.
6. Bṛbhā 5345, 5346, Tī P. 1419.