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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
597 with one's mind full of anxious ponderings (ohaya-mana-sankappe, cintasoya-sāgara-sampavithe).188
(15) Telling a lot of stories at odd times in the company of women.189
(16) Touring, studying, eating, easing nature or telling un-monkly (assamaņa-pāögga) stories to women in gardens, houses, monasteries or pleasure-houses, at doors, gates, water places, water banks, empty houses, or grass-stores, etc.190
(17) Not trying to find out the ill when one hears about him.191 (18) Not trying to secure (essential) articles for the ill.192
BEGGING AND FOOD :
(1) Accepting royal food (rāya-pinda), or food meant for the beasts, horses, elephants; food for the ill or for the guest; food meant to be distributed in famine; food taken out for the royal people or for the actors, wrestlers and such other people; food for caretakers of horses, elephants, peacocks, deer, etc; or for those who bring under control horses, elephants, etc.; food for those who massage (other's) body, or for holders of the umbrella (over the king), for holders of weapons; or food for the chamberlain or the door-keepers or the female servants in the harem.193
(2) Eating the 'nivedanā-piņda',194 or food containing living beings, or 'adhākarmika' food, or eating deliberately that food which involves major or minor faults;195 eating 'pippali', or 'pippali-powder', 'singabera' or 'singabera-powder', 'bila' or salt.196
(3) Keeping the food (without any reason) for a long time and then eating it,197
(4) Re-swallowing vomited food at twilight or at night.198
(5) Praising night-meal (rāï-bhoyaņa) or eating food acquired by day at night or vice versa. 199
188. Nis. 8, 11. 189. Ibid., 8, 10. 190. Ibid., 8, 1-9. 191. Ibid., 10, 36. 192. Ibid., 10, 39. 193. Ibid., 9, 1-6; 20-28. 194. Ibid., 11, 81. 195. Ibid., 10, 5-6; 19-27. 196. Ibid., 11, 91. 197. Ibid., 11, 78-79. 198. Brh. Kalp., 5-10. 199. Nis. 11, 73-77.
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