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ÂRÂRÂNGA SÚTRA.
washed, dyed, brushed, rubbed, cleaned, perfumed, if these clothes be appropriated by the giver himself. But if they be appropriated by another person, they may accept them; for they are pure and acceptable. (3)
A monk or a nun should not accept any very expensive clothes of the following description : clothes made of fur, fine ones, beautiful ones; clothes made of goats' hair, of blue cotton, of common cotton, of Bengal cotton, of Patta, of Malaya fibres, of bark fibres, of muslin, of silk; (clothes provincially called) Desaraga, Amila, Gaggala, Phâliya, Kâyaha ; blankets or mantles. (4)
A monk or a nun should not accept any of the following plaids of fur and other materials : plaids made of Udra, Pesa fur!, embroidered with Pesa fur, made of the fur of black or blue or yellow deer, golden plaids, plaids glittering like gold, interwoven with gold, set with gold, embroidered with gold, plaids made of tigers' fur, highly ornamented plaids, plaids covered with ornaments. (5)
For the avoidance of these occasions to sin there are four rules for begging clothes to be known by the mendicants.
Now, this is the first rule :
A monk or a nun may beg for clothes specifying (their quality), viz. wool, silk, hemp, palm-leaves, cotton, Arkatala. If they beg for them, or the householder gives them, they may accept them; for they are pure and acceptable.
This is the first rule. (6) Now follows the second rule :
* According to the commentary udra and pesa are animals in Sindh.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |