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Jaina Acara : Siddhanta aura Swarupa
To stop all physical activities in the shade of a tree, to sit there, to eat or drink relishable food and water, to evacuate bowels nearby, to self-study, to get the sheet sewn by other religionists and householders, to order or keep a staff of wood with life, to make it variegated, to take food from different plates, to imitate Viņā like musical instrument with mouth or nose, to play on instruments with leaves, flowers, fruit and the like, to use bed especially meant for a hermit, to take food with such as are not of good conduct, to put cloth, pot, blanket, broom etc. here and there or to have them in excess, to place the broom at some distance from himself or to sit on it or to use it as a pillow and to sleep over it are blameworthy for which the atonement is four months' one time meal. The food that is prepared at the king's palace is of fourteen kinds : (1) for the gate-keeper (2) for cattle (3) for servants (4) for sacrificial rites (5) for male and female slaves (6) for horses (7) for elephants (8) for those engaged in forests (9) for those affected by famine (10) for times of scarcity (11) for beggars (12) for the diseased (13) for charity (14) for guests. To accept any of these is prohibited. The desire to see the king and decked queens and study near the palace entail four months' fast.
In olden times the ten big cities were Campā, Mathurā, Varanasi, Sravasti, Säketa, Kapilā, Kaušāmbī, Mithila, Hastinapura and Rajagsha. At the time of coronation, some other festival at the palace to go a-begging there twice or thrice a month or to get out from there are impermissible, because an ascetic may then be suspected of being a spy. Another reason is overcrowding there which results in the killing of insects. This applies also to other state capitals.
The ascetic who speaks harsh words to the preceptor, disobeys or neglects him, accuses him of profit or loss, tries to mislead some scholarly, detached monk, kidnaps him, diverts the minds of the male and female initiated ones, in the case of conflict between two groups without atoning for sins and without asking forgiveness of them stays for more than three nights at the place, and to share food with such people invite expiation.
To confuse with regard to sunrise and sunset and actually to take food at night or when the sun has not actually risen are sinful which can be expiated by taking out the morsel immediately on knowing facts. At night it should be carefully disgorged. If you do not attend on diseased monks and nuns, you again commit a sin. In the rainy season there must be no tours. They must not move out on the Samvatsari day and should have less hair on their heads than the cow has. That is the day for fasting and not repentance of householders and members of another Order. During and before the close of rains at the meet called 'Samvatsarī', no ascetic should ask for cloth. If he violates the vow, he has to go without food for four months.
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