Agam 30 Prakirnak 07 Gacchachar Sutra

Author(s): D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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GACCHĀCĀRA PRAKĪRNAKA : 35
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 Jina order).
The nun who walks with lusty gait, sleeps on the cotton filled mattress and maintains her body with bathing etc (acts contrary to the Jina order).
The nun who delivers sermons at the householders' residences and repeatedly invites young men to come to the seminary acts contrary to the Jina order.
O' Ocean of virtue (Gautama)! even if the head nun delivers sermons, to the young and the old, at night, she acts contrary to the limits of the order of nuns.
The monastic order of nuns where there is no mutual quarrel and where the language of the householders is not spoken is said to be the best monastic order.
118. 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. The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns practice astrology and mesmerism, where they do not look after ill and newly ordained nuns, where they do not do the doable (study, inspection, expiatory retraction, etc.) and do the undoable (is a deplorable monastic order).