Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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BOOK II, LECTURE I, LESSON 8.
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept raw things which are not yet modified by instruments 1, as bulbous roots, growing in water or dry ground, mustard stalks; for they are impure and unacceptable. The same holds good with regard to long pepper, ground long pepper, common pepper, ground common pepper, ginger or ground ginger. (3)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept such raw fruits which are not yet modified by instruments, as those of Mango, Amrâtaka, Ghigghirâ, Surabhi 3, Sallakî 4; for they, &c. (4)
The same holds good with regard to raw shoots which, &c., as those of Asvattha, Nyagrodha, Pilamkhu, Niyûra, Sallaki. (5)
The same holds good with regard to raw berries which, &c., as those of Kapittha", pomegranate, or Pippala. (6)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept raw, powdered fruits which are not well ground and still contain small seeds, as those of Umbara, Pilamkhu, Nyagrodha, and Asvattha; for &c. (7)
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A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept unripe wild rice, dregs, honey, liquor, ghee, or sediments of liquor, if these things be old or if living beings are engendered or grow or thrive in
1 I. e. when they have undergone no operation which takes the life out of them.
2 Name of a shrub.
4 Boswellia Thurifera.
6 Cedrela Toona.
7 The wood-apple tree, Feronia Elephantum.
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Âmadâga, explained in the commentary âmapannam, unripe
or half ripe, aranikatandulîyakâdi.
3
Explained by satagru.
5 Explained by pipparî.