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ANNOTATIONS 50-53. The order of relinquishing the clothes at the end of winter is as follows:
If all the three clothes have become worn out, and are not fit enough to be worn during the next winter, they should be discarded. For eight months, no clothes should be draped round.
If, by any chance, clothings are difficult to obtain till the next winter, only the most worn out robes should be given up and the rest kept with him, but not used.
If one of the three robes is more worn out, it should be discarded, and the remaining two kept.
If the two robes out of three are very much worn out, the two should be disposed of and the remaining one kept.
If all the three are very old, they should all be given up.
५४. लावियं आगममाणे। 54. Läghaviyam agamamane.
Constantly bearing in mind (the ideal of) minimum possession, (the monk should gradually abandon his
clothes). ५५. तवे से अभिसमन्नागए भवति । 55. Tave se abhisamannāgae bhavati. 55. A monk who keeps the minimum of clothes gets the
(double) benefit of observing austerities(- curtail
ment of clothes and enduring physical hardships). ५६. जमेयं भगवया पवेदितं, तमेव अभिसमेच्चा सव्वतो सम्वत्ताए समत्तमेव समभिजाणिया।
Jameyaṁ bhagavayā paveditam, tameva abhisameccă savvato savvattae samattameva samabhijāniyā. The scantiness of clothes (for the practice of asceticism) which has been recommended for a monk by Bhagavan. Mahavira should be interpreted in the same sense, in which it is meant, and it should inspire the muni to practise equanimity thoroughly ( i.e. nobody should be despised).
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1. Cf. 6/65.
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