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for his conduct of keeping a cloth at the time of his pravrajya. Later when he became a powerful monk it was quite possible for him to leave that traditional cloth and innovate entire nakedness in his sangha.
Mahāvīra's anudharmita is not restricted to the traditional conduct only but is extended to the traditional preaching also. This is testified by the following reference: "अविहिंसामेव पवए अणुधम्मो मुणिणा पवेइओ"
ETO . 3. . Pr "This is the traditonal Law preached by the Muni that one should follow Non-violence."
Here the commentator explains the word अनुधम as: मोक्षं प्रन्यनुकुलो धर्मोऽनुधर्मः . But it should mean traditional law when we certainly know that the nonviolence is the traditional law for the Jains.
There are certain things and places which are prohibited for the Jaina monks because of their possessing life. And life is so subtle a thing that each and everybody is not competent to
know its existence or non-existence. In view of this fact one has to obey the
ule of prohibition even though there may be no life in those things and places where there is possibility of life. In view of this fact Lord Mahāvira, knowing 'ully well due to his omniscience that the tilas which were offered to him had no life, the water of a certain pond had no life and a certain place was fit for removing the refuse of the body, did not make use of those things. This was because he had to follow a tradition knowing fully well that if he would accept those things his followers would follow him and thereby he would be a cause to the break of that tradition. There was a danger of life of his followers in not accepting those things, still he was not ready to break the tradition. This incidence is narrated in Nishitha Bhāsya Gäthäs 4855-4859 and also in Bțihatkalpa Bhäşya Gāthas 995-1000.
So all these references show clearly that Lord Mahavira had sufficient regard for the old traditional laws which he nherited from Pārsva's Sangha and also establish the existence of the Jaina tradition prior to Mahavira himself.
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