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Jaina Acara: Siddhanta aura Swarupa
105 use nonwhite coloured cloth, to take food mixed (with life and without life) attract four months' fast.
To accept sandals made of wood, to keep and clean the pairs are prohibited. To sharpen a needle, a pair of scissors, to speak harsh words, to tell a lie, to steal things, to keep leather, cloth etc, to keep some pot brought by an ascetic, to accept a pot brought by another, to force a lay votary to offer him a pot, to be the first to fill his belly everyday, to take food from one and the same house day after day, to take half the share of charity given, to stay daily at one place, to praise the donor before and after receiving charity, to enter the house of votaries before and after begging without any purpose, to accompany ascetics of another Order for evacuation of excrement and wander with them from village to village, to appropriate relishable victuals and throw away the rest, not to give the remnant food to his associates but merely place it aside, to take food and water from the votary at whose house he is staying, to manipulate food and water through his middlemanship, to keep things beyond the stipulated time, to shift things from place to place without the knowledge of the householder whose house he is about to leave, to leave the abode without handing over things to the householder, to use things which might have been brought by a defaulting monk, to leave things helter-skelter and not to inspect possessions properly attract expiation.
To beg food from an inn, a resthouse, family of the owner of the house, the family of other religionsists, even when refused to enter the house for food, to manage food from a feasting place, to accept food even after having passed by three houses, to wash feet in order to improve looks, to wash them with hot water containing life, to dye them, to get operated upon, to eject impure blood and get pure one injected, to use ointment so as to kill insects, to cut hair growth from the body, to rub and dye teeth with a view to shining them, to leave excrement at public places and evacuate bowels at some irrigated place, fields of sugarcane, parks, fields of cotton, campa and mangoes and places uninspected during the day entail punishment in the form of eating but once a day.
In order to subjugate a king or mayor to worship him, to sing eulogies of him, to beg of him to eat food with life, to take food in precedence of the preceptor and other seniors, to bring food without proper scrutiny, to enter the abode of nuns without notice or to enter the abode of monks (to protect the segregation of sex), in a mood of rollicking humour, to place the broom, filter for mouth etc. without care, to make trouble, to be embroiled with one from whom forgiveness was sought, to burst into laughter, to have close contact with neighbouring monks and nuns of questionable.character, to accept things smeared with worms or bulbs and roots infested with life, to place dirty things where insects are liable to lose life and which is censured by one and all entail the meal once a day.
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