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THE JAINA ASCETIC
231 them; but a Svetāmbara will accept an invitation to go and fetch food from a layman's house, a thing which a Sthānakavāsi will never do.
With regard to clothes, the rule is the same: the monk may not ask for clothes, may not accept them if taken to the monastery specially for him, and may only receive them if the householder, as he gives them, explains that he has no longer any need of them.
These rules were clearly drawn up to prevent the order becoming too great a tax on the charitable; but, despite all this carc, the numberless ' holy men' in India are a most unfair burden on the earnings of the industrious.
The begging round is finished about cleven, but before Confes. breakfasting the ascetic makes auricular confession Sion. (Aloyaņā) to his guru and has a penance appointed.
The monks breakfast as ncar eleven as possible, for they may not warm up the food, and so eat it as quickly as they can.
From twelve to one they may not study; this hour is Kāļa. called Kāļa, and to study during it would be a sin.
From one to three they ought to study, and the laity are Study. so anxious that they shall, that devout Jaina often pay a pandit to instruct the monks in Sanskrit or Māgadhī, but they complain most bitterly of the monks' aversion to intellectual labour.
In the early afternoon, from about three to four, they again perform palevaņa, searching their clothing for insects.
About half-past four they go out to beg, and after coming in, make confession just as they did in the morning. They dine from five to six on their gleanings from the charitable, generally, as at breakfast, on rice and peas, bread, vegetables, curry and sweets; this meal they must finish before sunset, and during the night they may not even drink water.
They may not leave the monastery after dark, but they perform their evening Paạikamanum there for about an hour. As no light can be brought into the monastery,
