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giving them the same status and significance of scriptures and mixing them with scriptures and naming them as Pamc mg is an offence tantamount to insulting the scriptures propounded by the omniscient. Material offering based traditions to establish authenticity to the customs were introduced and incorporated into the original Jain doctrines by them and a word Pamc mg was created, and they themselves proclaimed it to be having an equal status to Niryuktis, C r is, V ttis and Bh yas to that of scriptures. The words Dw da mg and Ek da mg were mentioned in the scriptures, but the word 'Pamc mg 'is nowhere to be seen.
Lok ha apart from condemning the four Niryuktis etc. even declared that the very word "Pamc mg’ is invalid and spurious. The very existences of material based religious rituals are based on Pamc mg . Hence they were very much fond of Niryuktis etc. than scriptures. And as Lok ha touched their weak and sensitive point, they intentionally circulated false rumours that Lok ha never believed scriptures.
With regard to charity or giving alms – material based religious rituals was done with an evil intention of exhibiting their grandiose by distributing gold and Raupyas Rupee coins to the people on the eve of celebrations of oath ceremony etc. Yes, Lok ha undoubtedly opposed this type of pretentious alms.
Next are the issues of S m yika and Pau adha. Lok ha never ever either opposed or forbade them. An event was described in the Pa val of Kaduv d sect, which says that Kaduv shah, approximately the contemporary of Lok ha, defeated crya Sage Bh of Lok accha, follower of Lok ha in a spiritual discourse in Vikram 1539 in 'N il” (N dol ) city, and proved that idols are authentic as per scriptures and converted him to his sect. Kaduvha was a staunch supporter of Pau adh and practitioner of periodic self-contemplation (S m yika). Had Lok ha opposed Pau adha and S m yika even a little, Kaduv ha would have discoursed about this with Sage Bh and it would have been mentioned in his Pa val too.
A scholar disciple of Kaduv ha, R m kar avedh wrote ‘Lumpaka V ddha Hu d', a volumetric text consisting of 329 leaves (657 page In it he elaborately discussed about the belief of Lok ha regarding idol worship. But in the entire text, not even a single word is found which
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