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Jaina Acara : Siddhanta aura Swarupa
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Monks and nuns are not expected to use iron or other metallic pots or those made of teeth, horns, skin, crystal, conch and adamant. In the holy books they have been asked to use utensils made of clay, scooped gourd and wood. To go more than four miles, to find fault with Jainism, to praise irreligion, to wash the feet of other religionists and householders, to be frightened and to frighten others where darkness reigns all round and make others fear, to be wonderstruck and surprise others, to sing glories of the incompetent, to come from and go to inimical regions, to plead the cause of taking food at night, actually to eat at night with impunity, to keep victuals to oneself at night, to use offerings made to a deity, to initiate a worthless person, to dance attendance on unworthy monks and nuns, the living together of the clothed and unclothed hermits, to praise unwise deaths as by falling down from a mountain, to die in sand, to die by falling into a pit, to fall from a tree and die, to be drowned, to jump into burning fire, to take poison, to commit suicide by using a pointed weapon, to die because of sensuality, to die with the desire of being bom again, to die with thoughts of deceit, false belief and the desire for worldly gain as a reward for austerities, to die by hanging oneself, to die by entering into the body of a dead man and to give up one's ghost in the state of unrestrained abandon are all to be censured. They entail four months' fast.
Out of compassion to fasten a being with straw, long reed, wood, leather thread etc, or to unbind him, to violate renunciation again and again, to relish mangoes and the like, to like hairy skin, to sit on some straw or wooden seat full of others' cloths, to get a nun's sheet sewn by some mistress of a house or by some member of a different Order, to violate the vow relating to earth, water, air and splendour-bodied souls, to go up a live tree, to use the pot of a householder for eating, to put on a votary's clothes, to sleep on his bed, to treat him with medicines, to eat things with life, to be eager to look at the variegated wooden marionettes, to avidly visit fountains, caves, tanks and the like, to visit villages and towns for sensual satisfaction, to look for the antics of horses, elephants and pigs, to desire to see cow, horse and elephant-sheds, to take food brought early but to eat it very late, to eat victuals brought from a distance of more than four miles, not to apply fresh cow-dung to an injury, to take food prepared for lunch late in the evening, to smear the body irrespective of time, to ask householders to lift their cloth, pot etc., to ask them to do things, to cross Gangā, Yamunā, Sarayū, Aīrāvafi and Mahi twice or thrice in a month, to sleep on wet or live earth, to teach craft to householders on the door-sill, in the bath-room, on the bank of a river, on a' rock, under a roof and at night, to be angry with lay votaries, to insult them with harsh words, to argue with them, to predict their future as by a palmist, to interpret a dream, to teach them hocus pocus, to see his own face in a looking-glass, sword, jewel, water, oil etc.; to vomit
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