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(paccatthiya, pratyanika ) or thorns ( Buddha-kantaka ) towards whom no charity was to be displayed by the householders. The doctrine of Buddha is mentioned as a false belief born out of ignorance (mithya-drșți ), 2 and his followers were ignorant people who believed in false principles mistaking them to be the ultimate knowledge or truth.s
The Buddhist monks were considered to be unaware of the true religion even after shaving their head and renouncing their home. According to the author, the Buddhists could not be regarded as bhikkhu (lit, one who lives on begging ) because they did not observe proper rules in regard to their begging or in accepting the alms. This laxity regarding the matters of food on the part of the Buddhists has been hinted at by various Jaina scholars. Hemacandra in the 12th century goes even to the extent of saying that the religion of Buddha is excellent indeed, its essentials being a soft bed, rice-gruel in the morning, boiled rice at noon, drinking bouts in the evening and sugarcandy at night.
The Buddhists were highly criticised by the Jainas for their laxity in the matters of meat-eating. Buddha had allowed three kinds of meat as pure which could be taken by the Buddhist monks without incurring any guilt.?
1. TÀ GozfTT SCHAFT TE FIT ht quh yuzifa, egoi qaft-NC 3,
p. 415. 2. FIREHAŤ Affort fortale: -NC. 3, p. 101; fhearrta: 91777
EDHET:-Brh. Vr. 2, p. 561. 3. F FFFfa hal Pratcom ungata itd-NC. 3, p. 269. १. मुंडा कुडुबवासे ण वासंति रत्तपडा एते धम्म सयं ण याणंति, कहमन्नस्स कहिस्संति
NC. 3, p. 429. 5. (AFCIENTI AT Prepele "garet TFTE FUST-Wat Hafia" *7 à f a:
THITgtdf4c44[ ( 14t –NG. 4, p. 272. 6. Hemacandra's commentary on Yogašāstra, 4.102. 9-10; also Devasena's
Bhavasangraha, 68-69; Handiqui, op. cit., p. 373. 7. For three kinds of pure meat see-Chap. IV-Meat-diet. It is, however,
to be noted that only the Hinayānist Buddhists accepted the three kinds of pure meat, while the Mahāyānists totally abstained from mcat-diet,
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