Unknown Pilgrims

SR No.: 007014
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N Shanta
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications Delhi
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 820
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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The Unknown Pilgrims
- lastly, great importance is attached to the purity of water and of one's fluid intake. 114 The sādhvis drink only boiled water, of which Jaina families always keep a good supply, as they observe the same rules as the ascetics; apart from water, they may drink boiled milk, tea, coffee, rice-water and other non-alcoholic drinks such as contain no living substance.
Moreover, if they are offered no food at all, the sādhvis must accept the fact with serenity. 115
Those who go in quest of food must take into account the fasts and abstinences being oberved by their companions. Certain ones, for example, have renounced for life all viktis: milk, curds, fresh butter,
etc. 116
c) The return to the upāśraya and the meal
On returning from gocari to the upāśraya, the sādhvis wipe their feet and say "nisihiyā, nisihiyā, nisihiyā"; after performing the vandana to the guruņi, they show her what they have collected, deposit the pătras and then recite the iryāpathika-sutra, in order to purify themselves from all the faults they may have committed in their goings and comings, followed by the gocaracaryā-sūtra recited during kāyotsarga, and by alocană, confession of the faults committed during the gocari; the guruņi then prescribes a prāyaścitta, penance.117
114 Cf. AS II, 1,7,7; 6, 2, 1-2. DS V, 1, 75-81.
115 Cf. DS V, 2, 6.
116 Cf. P 493; 544
117 Cf. DS V, 1, 87-92; the gocaracarya-sútra is also part of the pratikramaņa; recitation of it can expunge faults, both voluntary and involuntary, committed during the gocari. The dosas, possible errors in this domain, number 47; they are catalogued in this way: i) in connection with gaveşana the quest for food: 16 udgama-dosas on the part of the śrāvikā, 16 utpādana-dosas on the part of the sadhvis; ii) in connection with grahaņaisanā, the acceptance of food: 10 dosas on the part of the sadhvis and śrävikā, committed in common; iii) in connection with paribhogaişaņā: 5