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Jaina Acāra : Siddhanta aura Swarūpa
115 Utensils must be kept clean by smearing them. The fourth great vow must be observed even at the cost of life.
Food brought from lay votaries must be exhibited before seniors and properly tested. Should it be found tainted with violence, it should be rejected outright and deposited elsewhere.
Passionless, steady and pure ascetics keep ten items. They are: (1) Utensils (2) string to bind them (3) (4) (5) screen (6) Protection from dust-particles (7) (8) three cloths (9) (10) a piece of cloth to cover the mouth.
Old.monks keep also their total thus coming to twelve. Besides these twelve, nuns have additional item like Pattka-it is like a lower underwear, Chalanika-unsewn cloth touching or covering the knees, Abbhintar Niyansini-it used to cover half the thigh and was used at the time of changing cloths, bahiniyansini-it used to cover the waist. Tied with a string it stretched to the knees, brassieres-it used to conceal the breasts, ukkacahiya—it very much resembled brassieres, Sanghari-it is of four kinds : two in ; the third for begging alms and the fourth to wear at religious gatherings. (14) Kandhakarnai-It was just long and broad so as to protect nuns from gusts of wind. It was also used to make dazzlingly beautiful nuns hunch-backed.
Staffs of three or seven knots have been considered auspicious. If a monk is attached to what he has with him it becomes a binding factor, because of its being a non-essential quality of soul. Heedlessness is violence whereas heedfulness is a non-violent virtue. A sin-fearing monk discards the place which should mar his conduct, knowledge and faith. Self-censuring should be four-cornered i.e., two ears of the confessor and two of the religious head. He who confesses sincerely is purified of all dross.
(39) Pindaniryukti-Food acceptable to a monk is 'Pinda'. It is of nine kinds : earth, water, fire, air, vegetation, two-sensed, three-sensed, four and five-sensed beings. These nine have further been divided into live, inert and mixed. Sins incurred by a householder are called source defects. Those incurred by a monk are called produce-defects. Those incurred by both together are known as food-acceptance-defects. When monks and nuns are to take food and then incur sins are morsel-acceptance defects.
Commentaries and annotations were written to explain the mysteries of the aforesaid books.
(40) Viseşāvasyakabhāsya—It is mainly a philosophical treatise. Its first and foremost subject is abstention from all sinful activities. It is the basis of all merits as also the essence of scriptural knowledge. It has been divided into righteousness, scriptural learning, partial renunciation and total abnegation. Such daily worship has nowhere else been detailed as here.
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