Book Title: History of Jaina Monachism
Author(s): S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute

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________________ 592 S. B. DEO REQUISITES : General : (1) Making a heretic or the owner of the lodge to carry the monk's requisites. 141 (2) Holding or using an excessive number of requisites.142 (3) Accepting clothing, alms-bowl, blanket or broom from condemned families. 143 (4) Cleaning the requisites for personal beauty.144 (5) Exchanging requisites with persons of loose morals,145 heretics or householders. 146 BEGGING-Bowl : 147 (1) Buying or making somebody to buy a bowl or accepting a bought one; taking on credit, or making somebody to do so, or accepting that brought on credit; exchanging, making others to exchange or accepting an exchanged pot. (2) Exchanging it without the consent of the ganin; giving it to an able novice-male or female, or to old monks or nuns who are able to procure it themselves); not giving it to novices, etc. who are unable to procure it). (3) Using an unfit or an unstable bowl. (4) Discolouring a coloured pot and vice versa. (5) Polishing it with oil, ghee, butter or fat; or besmearing it with powders or paints; washing it either with hot or cold water so as to give it a new appearance; or doing the above things with the thought of removing its bad smell. (6) Drying the pot on a place full of living beings. (7) Frequently asking for the bowl in a congregation by getting up. (8) Eating food in the vessels of the householder 148 141. Ibid., 12, 40. 142. Ibid., 16, 39. 143. Ibid., 16, 28. 144. Ibid., 15, 153-54. 145. Ibid., 15, 79-98. 146. Ibid., 15, 77-78. 147. Ibid. 14, 1-45. 148. Ibid., 12, 10. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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