Agam 30 Prakirnak 07 Gacchachar Sutra

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

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GACCHĀCĀRA PRAKĪRNAKA : 37
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The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns are not vigilant, where they do not show due affection towards the guest nuns who come calling, where they wear coloured clothes and keep fancy sweeps is a deplorable monastic order).
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The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns move about, gesture and act in ways that are enough to distract even the older men, what to say of the younger ones (is a deplorable monastic order)?
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The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns wash their faces, limbs and arm-pits often, where they show undue interest in various musical tunes and heats is a deplorable monastic order.
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O’ Gautama! the monastic group of nuns in which the old and the young nuns sleep alternately is a good monastic order. Such a monastic order supports right-knowledge and right-conduct.
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O' Gautama ! the nuns who often wash their necks, who thread the beads or pearls into rosaries or necklaces for the householders, who give their clothes to them (householders) and keep worrying about their mundane matters are, truly, not nuns.
The nun who stays in a place where, nearby, there is a heavy traffic of horses and mules or where they Trinate and defecate or where the lecherous men keep frequenting the prostitutes is not a true nun.