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divisions. The Bṛhatkalpabhāṣya deals, in details, with various transgressions, the punishments for which varied from the 'caturlaghu' to the 'pārāñcika'. But, there too, the minor punishments for minor faults predominate. The view advocated by the Jitakalpa possily suggests the scarce use of severe types of punishments in a somewhat later phase of the Jaina Church.
Monks and Nuns:
Normally nobody was allowed to visit the nunnery without any reason. The reasons given for this prohibition were the following: 71
(1) the arrival of the monk was likely to disturb the peace and the ease of the mind of nuns if they were sitting without putting on all their clothes;
(2) an ill nun found it awkward to ease nature in the presence of the
monk;
(3) the monk's arrival was likely to delay the breaking of the fast by the nuns;
(4) that was likely to delay her in her begging round;
(5) same as above regarding study;
(6) the monk's presence was likely to lead to a discussion between the nun and the monk regarding their previous private life, and was likely to make the nun go astray.
But the acarya was allowed to go to the residence of the nuns,72
(1) to give proper requisites to them, or help them in getting a proper
residence,
(2) to stabilise the nuns if they were unable to put up with the 'parişahas',
(3) to confirm (upasthāpanā) a nun on probation,
(4) to give religious lectures,
(5) to pacify quarrels among them,
(6) to arrange matters of the nuns if their pravartini was dead. In this case the ganadhara gave them reading,
(7) if a nun was possessed by a supernatural being, then the ācārya went to quell that trouble by means of spells,
(8) if the residence of the nuns was burnt,
71. Brh. kalp. bha., Vol. IV, 3693-3717.
72. Ibid. 3722-3801.
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