Babu Devkumar Smruti Ank

SR No.: 010080
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye, Others
Publisher: Jain Siddhant Bhavan Aara
Publication Year: 1951
Total Pages: 538
Language: Hindi
Classification: Smruti_Granth
File Size: 47 MB

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The Jaina Antiquary
I Vol. XVI GENERAL REMARKS. The following conclusions can be drawn from the observations made above
6) There is a difference in the mode of worship between the Švet and Dig. The Svet worship the whole idol while the Dig. worship only the feet of the idol.
(ii) There are no ornaments put on the idols of the Dig, while the Svet, do put ornaments on them.
(iii) The Dig. idols are naked while those of the Svet, have loin-cloth.
(iv) The Dig. idols have their eyes cast down as if in meditation while the Svet idols have staring glass eyes looking in front of them.
As regards the temples, it can definitely be said that the Dig temples lack all majesty and pomp characteristic of the Svet temples, It shows that the Svet laity is predominant in Poona. Taking India ae a whole we can say that the Dig. are in a majority in the South while the Svet, are predominant in North India. In Bombay presidency the Dig. are predominant in Sholapur side. I could notice that the Svet-being in a majority-temples were always crowded by the laymen and more than men, women visited the temples in a greater number.
There is no monastry for Dig, monks in Poona while the Svet have two. The Sthanakawasis have one *277% for monks and one for nuns. The monasteries are simple structures fit for the prosaic life of the monks.
Nearly all the monks and nuns were literate. Infact monks in the Svet monastery and even a nun in the FT1A6 could speak fuent Englishı. Every monks is taught to read the sacred books.
Though all the monks were grown up gentlemen yet I found that there was a monk of the age of 15 in the Svet. Jain monastery,
The monks were of a long standing and the nun i.. he 4176 told me that she led the life of a nun for the last fourteen years.