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clothes and a bowl, and with the modes of speech and the regulation of possession.
The 2nd Culã gives rules regarding religious postures, the places of study and those for easing nature. Moreover, it points out the places the clergy should avoid e. g. the places where musical instruments are being played upon. In short, the clergy should withstand the temptations of sound, colour etc.
Before I deal with the 3rd Cūlā, I may mention that Nisība has certain suttas agreeing with those of the 1st two Cūlās.
The 3rd Cūlā furnishes us with materials pertaining to the biography of Lord Mahāvira-the materials embodied in several cases in phrases recurring in Pajjosaņākappa.3 It also deals with the five mahāvratas and the reflections associated with them. .;
The 4th Cūlā which marks the end of the Ayāra, contains 12 verses, the contents of which may remind a Bauddha scholar of Therāgāthās.
This much may be deemed sufficient so far as the contents of Ayāra are concerned. So I shall now mention the following 1 Here it is said that the words like hole and gole should not be used; for,
they are abusive terms. They are translated in S. B, E. (vol. XXII, p. 151 ) as "you loon! you lout !” In the fn. of this page we have:
My conjectural translation is based on the meaning of the Sanskrit words hoda, golâ."
It may be noted that hole, gole and vasule occur in Dasaveyäliya (VII, 14), and the words hola, vasula and gola in Nāyādhammakahā (I, 9; s. 84 ). 2 For instance $S 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 15, 17 and 23 of Bhāvanā can be
respectively compared with $S 1, 2, 97, 98, 90, 10, 108, 109, 110 and 117 of
Pajjosaņākappa.' See S. B. E, (vol. XXII). 3 The author of Ayāranijjutti is supposed to be the same as that of
Pajjosaņākappa. If this is correct, the author of the latter must have horrowed from Ayāra. For, firstly Bhāvarā is extracted form Sattha. parinnā, and secondly it is a work of a Sthavira other than the one who
wrote a Nijjutti on it. .4 Incidentally it may be mentioned that in this Ayāra (1, VI, 1) there is
a description of the untarnished soul, and that there is a reference to 16 .. diseases as under:
