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RELIGJON
227 hempen cloth; mixed hempen cloth ; cloths mtaken from corpses and thrown away; clothing made of rags picked up from a dust heap, of the bark of the Tiritaka tree; the natural hide of a black antelope; a dress made of a network of strips of a black antelope's hide; of Kuģa grass fibre; a garment of bark; a garment made of small slips or slabs of wood (shingle) pieced together; a blanket of human hair; of horses' tails; of the feathers of owls.
He is a plucker-out-of-hair-and-beard, a stander-up, a croucher-down-on-the-heels, a bedof-thorns-man. He uses a plank bed, sleeps on the bare ground, sleeps always on one side, a dust and dirt wearer, lives and sleeps in the, open air, does not mind whatsoever seat is offered to him, goes down into water thrice a day to wash away his sins '.1 Here the two practices of plucking out of both hair and beard and standing up rejocting the use of a seat are applicable alsс to the Jaina mendicants. Lastly, the account of the practices concerning the mõde of collecting food and eating may be shown to apply to the Acolaka class of the Paribbājakas and the Ajivika and Jaina types of the Samanas: 9
'He goes naked, performs his bodily functions and eats food in a standing posture, licks his
1 Dialogues of the Buddha, op. cit., p. 230f.; Digha, i, pp. 166-7. -
