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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS 10, 28; 60, 5; Nis. 17, 126-129). Another important qucstion is whether the vessel or the hands of cither the giver or the receiver of the food or the beverage arc moist (samsaltha, Āyār. II 59, 5; Dasav 5, 1, 31-36) or not. This Icads to cstablish 7 different ways of how the monk must have alms bcing given to him (prnd'esanā, pān'os. Āyār. II 69, 7, Thān. 385 b).
$155 What food has been reccived on a round for alms (pindavāya) must be shown to the Guru (Āyār. II 67, 4; Dasav. 5, 2, 31) and it must be sufficient for the needs of a hсalthy person, while only he who fcels weak (no samtharar) may repeat the round (K. 5, 54, Dasav 5, 22), as a nun may a when having received but very little, a pulāga-bhatta, as the figurativc expression has it 32 bits (kavala) of egg size are considered a normal quantity (Vay 292a-Uvay 30 II-Vav.8, 18). As was pointed out above, the round may be done but once in a day, during the 3rd porisi, and what has been received must be consumed within a certain spacial and, hence, also temporal limit. To receive food in the dark is forbidden by K 1, 43, and it is out of the question to consume it as rāz-bhoyana ($ 171), comp. K. 5, 6-91, nor is it allowed to keep it for the next day (K. 5, 49) except in cases of heavy illness. But yet K 4, 11-Nis. 12, 30 and Viy. 291b refer to food received during thc Ist porisi, 1e in the morning It remains but to assume that in this case it was brought to the monka and this must cqually apply to such food as was accepted before sunrise and consumed after it (V1y 291 b). That there is an early meal is also demonstrated by calling certain fastings by the name of cauttha-bhatta and the like ($ 156).
$156. Uvav. § 30 III; Sūy. II 2, 72; Thân 296a f. quote a large number of different methods as to how food may be asked for and taken by a monk. The acceptance of either the one or the other of these methods appertains to the province of asceticism or self-castigation to which we now proceed. Physical asceticism ( § 178) is known to concern, for its greater
I It is not said that what has been received must be eaten while standing This is the case with the Dig (sthiti-bhojana, also ubbh'asana etc. Chapp 1, 14=ūrdhvâšana, comm erroneously udbha-bhajana)
2. This is implied by anita Sādhudinakrtya 277 ($ 2012).
