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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
"I went without clothes....... I licked my food from my hands. I did not eat food brought in, nor that prepared on my account, nor I accepted invitations for it. I took no alms from pot or dish. I took no food within a threshold, or through window-bar or within the pounding place, nor from two people eating together-nor from a pregnant woman, nor from a woman suckling a child, nor from one in intercourse, nor from food collected here and there, nor food where a dog stood by, nor from place where flies were swarming, nor fish, nor flesh, nor drink fermented, nor drink distilled, nor yet sour gruel did I drink. I ate from just one house, and just one morsel from that, or else I ate from two houses only and just two morsels thence......or I ate from seven houses only and just one morsel from each house. I took food only once a day or once in two days-or once in seven days, even to intervals of half a month......I plucked out hair and beard and kept thepractice up; even to a drop of water was charity established in me; thus:--"may I not be guilty of violence in harming tiny living beings (therein) scorched, frozen and alone in fearsome forest, dwelling naked, no fire to warm bent on the meditation is the
sage.”
Note. Whatever practical conduct of a sage is described above agrees with no other but the conduct of naked (Digambar) Jain Saints. Among the Digambar Jains there is an old Prakrit work on conduct of saints
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