Agam 30 Prakirnak 01 Gachchhachar Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Gachchhachar-Prakirnak-7/1 - Gatha-104
[105] Meaning. Therefore, O Gautam! One must properly scrutinize monastic group for its righteous conduct and only then live in it for a period of a fortnight, a month or life-long.
[106] Meaning- What can be said about the limit of restraint of a monastic group in which a half-monk (Kshullaka) or an old monk or a newly ordained monk is guardian is unrestrained.
Description of the Nuns' Characteristic
[107] Meaning- O Gautam! What can be expected of the standard of celibacy in the seminary in which a half-nun (Kshullaka) or a young nun lives alone?
[108] Meaning- What is the limit of restraint of the monastic group in which alone nun goes out of the seminary at night even for a distance of two hands? That monastic group is corrupt.
[109] Meaning-O' gentle Gautam! The monastic group in which alone nun talks to alone monk, even if he is her brother, is devoid of the virtues of monastic group.
[110] Meaning- The monastic group in which a nun indulges in amorous talk with a householder, that nun, surely, pushes herself in ocean of four-destined worldly wanderings.
[111] Meaning-O' Ocean of virtue (Gautam)! Know, the monastic group in which an angry nun, speaks in loud manner of the householders, is devoid of monastic virtues.
[112] Meaning-O' Head monk Gautam! The nun who discards white clothes and wears various coloured clothes cannot be called a nun.
[113] Meaning- The nun who sews the householders torn clothes, embroiders them, fills them with cotton-wool and massages herself or the others with oil (acts contrary to the Jinas order).
[114] Meaning- The nun who walks with lusty gait, sleeps on the cotton filled matters and maintains her body with bathing etc ((acts contrary to the Jinas order).
[115] Meaning- The nun who delivers sermons at the householders' residences and repeatedly invites young men to come to the seminary act contrary to Jinas order.
[116] Meaning- o Ocean of virtue (Gautam)! Even if the head nun delivers sermons, to young and old, at night, she acts contrary to the limits of the order of nuns.
[117] Meaning- The monastic order of nuns where there is no mutual quarrel and where language of the householders is not spoken is said to be the best monastic order.
[118] Meaning- The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns do not retract from the incurred flaws through daily, nightly, fortnightly, four monthly and yearly expiatory retractions and do not obey their head nun (is a deplorable monastic order).
[119] Meaning- The monastic group of nuns in which self-willed nuns practices
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