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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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ÂRÂRÂNGA SÚTRA.
SIXTH LECTURE,
CALLED
BEGGING FOR A BOWL'.
First LESSON. A monk or a nun wanting to get a bowl, may beg for one made of bottle-gourd or wood or clay, or such-like bowls. If he be a youthful, young, &c. (see II, 5, 1, § 1) monk, he may carry with him one bowl, not two ?
A monk or a nun should not resolve to go farther than half a Yogana to get a bowl.
As regards the acceptance of a bowl, those four precepts which have been given in the First Lesson of the First Lecture, called): Begging of Food, concerning one fellow-ascetic, &c., should be repeated here, the fifth is that concerning many Sramanas and Brâhmanas.
A monk or a nun should not accept a bowl which the layman has, for the mendicant's sake, bought, &c. (see the Lecture called Begging of Clothes 4). (1)
A monk or a nun should not accept any very expensive bowls of the following description : bowls made of iron, tin, lead, silver, gold, brass, a mixture of
1 Paesanâ.
2 This applies, according to the commentator, to Ginakalpikas, &c. Ordinary monks may have a drinking vessel besides the almsbowl. 3 See II, 1, 1, $11.
* II, 5, 1, $3.
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