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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
AKARANGA SUTRA.
of living beings. Therefore he should not accept such-like food, &c., fetched from above. (1)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept food, &c., which a layman, for the sake of the mendicant, has taken from a granary or vault by contorting himself up and down and horizontally; thinking that such-like food is brought from underground'. (2)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept food, &c., which is kept in earthenware. The Kevalin says: This is the reason: The layman might, for the sake of the mendicant, break the earthen vessel containing the food, &c., and thereby injure the earth-body; in the same way he might injure the fire-body, the wind-body, plants and animals; by putting it again (in earthenware), he commits the pakkhâkamma sin. Hence it has been said to the mendicant, &c., that he should not accept food, &c., which is put in earthenware. (3)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept food, &c., placed on the earth-body, the windbody, the fire-body, for such food is impure and unacceptable. The Kevalin says: This is the reason: A layman might, for the sake of the mendicant, stir or brighten the fire, and taking the food, &c., down from it, might give it to the mendicant. Hence it has been said, &c., that he should accept no such food. (4)
When a monk or a nun on a begging-tour sees that a layman might, for the sake of the mendicant,
1 The original has bho mâlohadam ti nakkâ. Bho mâlohada is explained adho mâlâhritam. Mâlohada, which I translate 'fetched from above,' is the technical term for things affected by the dosha under question.
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