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WHY JAINISM AND BUDDHISM ARE THE SAME ? 283
लेवण मजण कम्मं पियमाणं दारयंच णिखविय ।
एवं विहादिया पुण दाणं जदि दिति दायगादोसा ॥५२-६॥ Levana najjana Kammam piyamânam dâra yamcha
nikha vi ya Evain viha diyî puna dânam jadi dinti da yagâ dosô
5216 " It is wrong on the part of a donor, if any woman serves food while smearing the ground, bathing, suckling a child and leaving it."
About taking food from the hands it is said in Vúlâchâra Anagara bhavana chapter,
असणं जदि वा पाणं खजं भोज चलिजपेज वा
पडिलेहि ऊण सुद्धं भुजंति पाणि पत्तेसु ॥ ५४॥ Asanam jadi va panam khajjam bhojam challijja pejjam
va
Padi lehi una suddham bhunjanti pâni pattesuh. 54
“The saints eat from the hollow of their hands the pure food eatable, drinkable, tastable, lickable etc., after properly seeing it.”
Thus the Jain scriptures prove that the conduct followed by Goutama Buddha while he was a naked monk was nothing but the conduct of a naked Jain Saint.
From the Pali scriptures of the 1st century A.D. at Ceylon it is evident that Goutama Buddha in his 35th year i.e., 6 years after he left his home preached his sermon on the middle path.
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