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According to the Prakrit dictionary 'jugavam' means free of the disturbances of time. Acharya Shri Atmaramji M. has interpreted it as people born in the third and fourth phase of the time cycle.
Six kinds of clothes have been prescribed for Buddhist monks kausheya, kambal, karpasik, kshauma (made of linseed bark), shanaj (made of jute) and bhangaj (made of bark of hemp). The six kinds of clothes allowed for Brahmins are-black deer skin, ruru deer skin, goat skin, jute cloth, kshupa (linseed cloth) and sheep wool cloth.
Bhangiya cloth also means silk. There is a type of silk for which silk-worms are not killed, it is called tusser silk. The detailed information gathered recently about silk reveals that the process of making silk involves cruelly destroying a large number of worms. Thus it is a matter worth investigating and contemplating if cloth produced by such extremely violent process should be used by nonviolent ascetics or not.
In Agam six types of clothes have been mentioned. This does not mean that ascetics should use only these six types of clothes. It appears that the purpose of this mention is just to give information about clothes. This discussion about clothes also informs about the ancient but advanced craft of making cloth. Even in absence of the modern advanced machines and technology how fine and artistic cloth was made in that period.
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वस्त्र-ग्रहण की क्षेत्र-सीमा
२१२. से भिक्खू वा २ परं अद्धजोयणमेराए वत्थपडियाए नो अभिसंधारेज्जा
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२१२. वस्त्र की याचना करने के लिए साधु-साध्वी आधे योजन से आगे जाने का विचार नहीं करे।
AREA RANGE FOR ACCEPTING CLOTHES
212. To beg for cloth, a bhikshu or bhikshuni should not go beyond half a yojan. STARIN E (4777)
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