Book Title: Jainism and Modern Thought
Author(s): M M Shroff
Publisher: M M Shroff

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________________ 65 16. They are banned from taking any service for themselves from householders. 17 They are not supposed to carry on correspondence nor any kind of communication either through a householder or by post. 18 They cannot more about in trains, motor cars, plains or use any kind of transport, but to cover thousands of miles across the country every year on foot bareheaded and barefooted. • 19. Jain monks and nans are considered to be the birds of passage as they are not supposed to stay at one place ercept during monsoon season for more than a month and nuns for two months (ill health and old age being exceptions), they have to move from city to city and village to village carrying all their clothes, their vessels and their religious scriptures op their own shoulders as they are not supposed to move about leaving their belongings in custody with the houscholders to be taken care of by them nor they are supposed to take help of the householders while carrying those along with them 20. Lastly they can never get themselves shaved by razors neither at their own hands nor at the hands of the barbers but have to pluck out the hair of their heads and beards by their own hands or get them plucked by other sadhus but never at the hands of the householders. Use of depilatory is totally prohibited

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