Studies in Buddhist and Jaina Monachism

Author(s): Nand Kishor Prasad
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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should keep the robes taken off and the alms-bowl having dried them properly in the sun.
A disciple must also make every arrangement for his teacher's bath, such as, getting cold or hot water as desired by the teacher, providing kneaded powder, moistened clay and chair, take the chair back from the bath-room, wipe the water off from his body and give him his robes, etc.
It was the duty of a disciple to clean the vihara inhabited by the teacher. The sanitation of a vihara which normally was furnished with parivenas (cells), a kotthaka (store-room), an upaṭṭhānasālā (service-hall), an aggisălă (fire-room) and a vaccakuti (privy) comprised of works like removing the cobwebs, wiping off the casements and the corners of the room after taking away the alms-bowl, the robes, the mat and other furniture; scouring the walls with a wet mop; sprinkling the floor with water and casting aside the sweepings. The furniture, etc. which had been disturbed at the time of cleaning should be placed at their respective places having dried them in the sun.
A disciple should always be heedful in shutting the windows, if dusty wind is blowing through them. Normally he should open them by day and shut at night in winter and vice versa in summer: So also he should get his teacher's robes washed, made and dried.
Besides the menial works of the vihara in general and that of the teacher in particular, a disciple is expected to assist his teacher in ecclesiastical matters as well. Accordingly, he is allowed to interrupt the teacher in his speech, if he is feared to commit an offence by words. It is also a credit on the part of a disciple, if he so occasions that the teacher delivers a discourse or answers questions put to him. It is not less creditable, if he removes or gets removed by another person or by religious conversation, the discontent (anabhirati), the indecision (kukkucca) and false belief (ditthi), if the teacher has come in their grip. Moreover, it is also the duty of a disciple to see his teacher sentenced to Parivasa (probation), Mulayapatikassană (recommencement of penal discipline, Manatla (fixed probation) or Abbhāna (rehabilitation); releaved from the ecclesiastical proceedings which are to be carried out against him; or the punishment alleviated. If however the proceeding has been carried out, he should cause the teacher to behave properly in order to get rid of it.
Because of the very difference in the fundamental principle, a Jaina monk is not asked to serve his teacher in a way exactly analogous to that of the Buddhist. Very likely the Jaina Order does not
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