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tinges by dint of which he is able to exhaust and tranquilise his karma enshrounding extrasensory knowledge, to acquire knowledge to enquire and knowledge to stabilise, knowledge about the nature of things and about non-nature of things, and this gives him power to act with valour and to transform and with them, extra sensory knowledge, Amvada, in order to stupefy people, takes food from a hundred homes, till resides in a hundred homes. Hence I say, till in a hundred homes.
Gautama : Bhante! Is it possible for Amvada Parivrajaka to get himself tonsured by thy hand, give up his home and join the order of monks?
Mahâvîra : No, it is not. But, Gautama, Amvada Parivrajaka will be a worshipper of the Sramana path and live on enriching himself with the knowledge of soul and matter, and be without a home, etc. (applicable to a householder follower).
Amvada is renounced of slaughter in general, falsehood in general, usurpation in general, sex in general and accumulation of property in general, speciality being that he is renounced of sex for life (being already a monk).
Amvada does not accept food prepared by householder for self, prepared for a monk, prepared for householder and a monk, increased while cooking to make an offer to a monk, mixed with food prepared for self, purchased, borrowed, offered without the knowledge and permission of the master of the household, brought from elsewhere after the arrival of the monk, kept aside for self, especially prepared for self, prepared for intake while crossing through a forest, prepared for beggars, prepared for famine stricken, prepared for some relative to come, prepared for a patient and prepared for the poor during a cloudy day. Amvada does not eat roots, till seeds, nor enjoy, nor desire to get.
For good Amvada has given up four types of activities leading to unnecessary harm, viz., wrong concentration of the mind, to fall a victim to delusion, to give to another a weapon to cause harm/slaughter and to counsel others to indulge in activities acquiring sin.
Amvada accepts water no more than half a Magadha Adhaka, from a flow, not a pool, till passed through a piece of cloth, not otherwise, pure, not impure, which has life, but not non-life, that too offered, not unoffered, to wash and clean teeth, hands, feet,
