Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS and the north. The novice's hcad is shaved clean of hair (mundāvcttae). He is now munda, ic. "bare", a word cqually applied to the state following the suspension of the fivc scnscs and the four passions (Thān. 334b, 196a). From now on the hair may not grow to a length longer than cow-hair, and this, too, only du, ing the rainy scason. Every half month it is altcrnately cut by scissors (Khura) or altogether rcnioved by shaving; every six months or every ycar what of hair has grown is torn out (Pajj 57, Nis. 10, 44). This is the act of the loja, comp. the lūya-sıraga Dasā 6 XI In the legend we read of thc pancamutthiya loya, the act of tcaring out 5 handful of hair, being performed right at the beginning of one's becoming a monk, eg for Mahāvīra āyāra II 15$ 22 (a),for Subhaddā Pupph. 32a, and thus it is donc up to this day This process certainly goes back to an ccstatic cruption
$138. The beginner is given into a tcacher's tutclage (szkkhāvci, schāver) and remains in the state of a novicc or pupil (scha, schatarāga) for at lcast onc wcck, for six months at the longest, but on the averagc, as sccms to be the casc, for the time of 4 months (Vav 10, 15=Than, 129b). The novice is not yet subject to thc whole austerity of the regulations; thus hic is allowed to partake of alms, as a monk is not, when offered to him by the latter, provided that it docs not contain any tlung living (K 4,13) The novitiatc comics to an end by the novice's taking the vows for becoming a monk (uvatthāvanā, later dilkhā, diksā) This may not be donc (Vav 10, 165) bcforc his having reached the end of the 8th ycar of his lifc? A postponement beyond the date up to 10 days is admissablc (Vav. 4, 15-17) A candidate who turns out to show thc above mentioned deficiencies is granted neither admission (uvatthavettae, -tthā-, Mahānus. dikhhellne) nor the subscqucnt tutclage
Mahāvira naturally follows thic clample of his predecessors 2-22, Usabha (1) on Indra's request abstuning from the fifth multhi (Hcmac Tris 1, 3, 69-71 ) -In the Mundaha-Upanisad which, atc to its title, postulated the removal of the hair, HERTEL (comp his cd 1926, p 6515 ) saw "distinct allusions to the tcaching of the Jains”
2. This date minus the longest possiblc novitiatc of half a ycar, even when no direct statement is made, results in the above mentioned seven years and a half