Lord Mahavira Vol 01

Author(s): S C Rampuria
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute

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Lord Mahavira fathers-in-law's families, who have their nails, hairs and hairs of the armpits overgrown, who keep aside from flowers, essence, garlands and ornaments, who bear the hardship of non-bath, sweat, dust, dirt and mud, whose food does not contain milk, curd, butter, ghi, oil jaggery and salt, and also honey, alcohol and meat, whose accumulation is little, who commit little slaughter, who inflict little torture, who earn their livelihood from simple calling women who live contented like this (with their men whom they had once acquired, but never coveting the company of another),-till the length of their stay is sixtyfour thousand years.
Those living in the villages, mines, towns, etc., etc., whose intake consists of two items including water or three items including water, or seven items including water, eleven items including water, or those who earn their liveli-hood by using the oxen, who observe vows about cattle, who are sincere househoders, who have devotion with humility, who believe in inactivity (a kiriyavadi) and who are brddha-sravakas (or who are tapasas and brahmanas), for such men the following items with a distorted taste, viz., milk, curd, butter, ghi, oil, jaggery, honey, wine and meat are prohibited, the only exception being mustard oil. Such men have few desires, the rest as before, the stay is stated to be sixty four thousand years.
Those who are forest-dwelling Tapasa Monks living on the bank of the Ganga, such as the hotrkas, the
such as the hotrkas, the clad ones, those who lie on the ground, those who perform sacrifice, those who are respectful those who keep vessels or kundika-holders, those who subsist on fruit, those who bathe by taking a dip in water, those who repeat the dips, those who remain under water for some time, those who clean their limbs by rubbing clay, those who live to the south of the Ganga, those who live to the north of the Ganga, those who take food after blowing a conch, those who take food on the bank of the river after making a sound, those who entice a deer, those who live long by subsisting on the carcass of an elephant, those who move about by holding high their stuff, those who sprinkle water in all directions before collecting fruits and flowers, those who are clad in bark, those who live in caves and crevices, those who make use of cloth, those who live inside water, those who remain at the root of the tree, those who subsist on water, on air, on moss, on root, on trunk, on bark, on