Book Title: Doctrine of Jainas
Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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________________ 284 DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS monk If reduced without a remainder the monk is punished with the (8.) müla, ie by repeating the act of consecration he starts right from the bottom.” The comm, attach some importance to the müla ( Chp . mūla-khidi, m.-bhūmi ), whereas the Canon neglects it altogether From this "new start” the (9) anavatthappa (K 4, 3=Țhān 162b)--adj. to anavatthayā—distinguishes itself in that the offender has to temporize for an interim till the act of consecration can be once more performed on him Since during this interim, acc. to the comm., fastings have to be exercised, it may be assumed that it is limited according to the case However, the offender can be re-consecrated only when, in the meantime, he has conducted himself like a layman (as opposed to a profane person), provided that the gana he is to belong to categorically asks for it (Vav 2, 18f, 22) The same applies (Vav 2, 20f 23) to the (10) pāranciya (K 4, 2=Thān 162b, an abstract subst. is missing) 1 He is excluded from the community of the monks, and no reference is made as to his being re-admitted Yet his readmittance is possible, as we learn from those Sūtras. But we have to consider that it is not offences but qualities of character that make a pāranciya he is bad, frivolous or of a homosexual disposition (anna-m-annam karemāne). That is why in praxi his classification as a par comes up to his permanent exclusion, all the more since his subsequent conduct as a layman does not necessarily imply his re-consecration. $163 The samgha is constituted not only by monks and nuns but by laymen and lay women as well ( § 137). The latter two are called samanovāsaga and -sıyā, abbreviated uddsaga and -siyā Other names are sāvaga and sāryā (along with the preceding pair Āyār II 92, V1y 221b), saddha (e.g Āyār. II 69, 15; 75, 22) and gzhi (e g Vav 2, 18-23). The sāgāriya which in itself means the same (Vav. 4, 18f; 9, 1-30 sāriya) is the host ( § 147), the gāratthrya and the gāratthini are complete strangers to the community of true believers by whom I Ip Chp 174 262 ff the gth and roth form are comprised as anupatthavaga and pāranciga under (9) þarıhāra (comp also Mülāc. 5, 165) Here the saddahanā leading through nindana and garahana (comp $ 160) to the sammalta, e to righteousness, is considered as the roth form of the pāyacchitta.

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