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No. IV] RULES FOR ASCETICS IN JAINISM, BUDDHISM & HINDUISM. 69
Batterakāzhārya we find that the condition of an Achelaka means non-covering of the body by cloth, deer-skin, barks, or leaves of trees. It has also been mentioned that ascetics should eat while standing and in the palm of their hands. Begging from a pregnant woman or from a woman engaged in suckling an infant is also prohibited. 3 The faults arising from fireplace, Udukhalas, and vessels, etc. have been mentioned for evidence. The previous arrangement for alms to particular persons have been prescribed as prohibitive. That the Jain monks did not accept invitations like Brahmins appear from a story in the Panchatantra where a Jain sage being invited says: "O Sravaka, why do you, who know Dharma, speak thus ? Are we like the Brahmanas that you are inviting us? We always move about according to rules and if we find a Srāyaka having reverence, we go to his house, and if he prays with great persistence, we eat as much in his house as would enable us to live."6
Naked saints were not peculiar to Jain religion only, but were also found in the Hindu religion specially in the Sivaite secte. The fourth stage of life named Sannyāsa or Bhiksu enjoined that the saints should wear only a Kaupin or remain entirely naked.
(1) "वस्थाजिणवक्केण व अहवा पत्ताइणा असंवरणं ।
णिभूसण णिग्गंथं अच्चेलक्कं जगदि पूज्जं ॥" (2) "अंजलिपुडेण ठिच्चा कुड्डाइविवजणेण समपावं ।
पडिसुद्धे भूमितिए असणं लिदिभोषणं णाम ॥" (3) "प्रतिवाला अतिवुड्ढा घासत्ती गम्भिणी व अंधलिया ।
अंतरिदा व णिसण्णा उच्चस्था अहव णीचथ्या ।" लेवणमजणकम्म पियमाणं दारयं च शिक्खविय ।
एवं विन्हा दिया पुण दाणं जदि दिति दायगा दोसा ॥" (4) "अप्पासुरण मिस्सं पासुयदव्यं तु पूदिकम्मं तं ।
चुल्ली उक्खनी दबी भायणगंधत्ति पंचविहं॥" (5) "जावदियं उद्देसो पासंडोत्ति य हवे समुद्देखो।
समणोत्ति व प्रादेखो णिग्गंथोत्ति य हवे समादेसो ॥" (6) "भाः श्रावक ! धर्मज्ञोऽपि किमेवं वदसि ? किं वयं ब्राह्मणसमानाः, बत आमन्त्रणं करोषि ?
वयं सदैव तत्कालपरिचर्यया भ्रमन्तो भक्तिभाजं श्रावकमवलोक्य तस्व गृहे गच्छामः, तेन महता यत्नेन अभ्यर्थिता तद्गृहे प्राणधारणमात्रामशनकियां कुर्मः।"
