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S. B. DEO clothing and fourteen types of other requisites is to be met with.126 It consisted of the following:
(1) patta (pātra) (2) pattābandho (pātrakabandha) (3) pāyaţthavana (pātrasthāpana) (4) pāyakesariyā (pātrakesarikā) (5) padalāïm (patalāni) (6) rayattāņa (rajastrāņa)
(7) gocchaga (gocchaka) (8-10) three pacchāgas (pracchädakas)
(11) rayaharana (rajoharana) (12) muhapatti (mukhapatrī) (13) mattaga (mātraka) (14) kamadhaga (kamathaka).
Out of all these twenty-five requisites which included clothes also, the essential or compulsory requisites (utkistata) were eight: three robes, alms-bowl, 'abhyantaranivasani', 'bahirnivasani', 'sanghātikā' and 'skandhakarani'. The normal number of requisites consisted of thirteen articles: 'rajoharana', 'patalakāni', 'pātrakabandha', 'rajstrāņa', 'mātraka', 'kamathaka', 'avagrahānantaka', 'patta', 'ardhoruka', 'kañcuka', 'calanikā', 'aupakaksikā! and the 'vaikaksikī. And those of less importance (?) (jaghanya) were four: 'mukhapotikā', 'pătrakesarikā', 'gocchaka', and 'pātrasthāpanaka'.127
Besides this normal number of requisites, a number of other articles were permitted both for the nuns as well as for the monks for a temporary period or for the rainy season. It consisted of such things as the 'pādalekhanikā' used in clearing up mud from one's feet, the fivefold protectors from the rain made either of cotton or of 'sūci' or leaves of palāśa tree or of bamboo or of hair of animals (vāla); the three kinds of vessels for depositing bodily dirt and excretion; and the 'vāraka' which was used for carrying water to be used after easing nature, etc.128 Such articles like the needle (süci), nail-cutter (nakhaharani), the tooth-brush (danta-sodhana) and the ear-pick (karna-sodhana), etc. were, it appears, allowed both to the monks as well as to the nuns.129
Even though many of these requisites were common for both the sections of the Church, yet a distinction was made in some of them. For
126. Ogha-N. 668-71; also Bịh. kalp. bhā. Vol. IV, 4080-83; we have explained these in Chapt. 2 of this part.
127. Ibid., 4095: also Ogha-N. 678. 128. Brh, kalp. bha. Vol. IV, 4097-98. 129. Ibid., 4096.
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