Studies in Buddhist and Jaina Monachism

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

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prescribe any service to be given to the teacher at the time of his setting out for begging alms or after coming back from begging.tour. At best he is asked to show the contents of his begging-bowl after his return from begging-tour. It never implies that the Jaina monks are not prescribed any duty towards his teacher. The discipline to be observed towards the teacher which is laid down in the Vinayasutta of the Uttaradhyayana is indeed very stringent. We may refer to the first chapter where it has been discussed under the heading daily duties of a Jaina monk'.
It is to be noted that the duties of a teacher towards his disciple are almost the same as those of a disciple towards his teacher just referred to. A teacher, besides his spiritual help by exhortation and instruction, is to supply his disciple robes, alms-bowl and other parikkhara (requisites), and even to serve him with chunarn, clay, etc, if he is in such a need. These mutual duties and obligations seem to have placed a teacher and a disciple on the same footing in the Buddhist hierarchy.
What installed a teacher to a position higher than the disciple were the following discipline to be observed by the disciple towards his teacher. A disciple without the permission of his teacher is forbidden to :
(i) give his alms-bowl, robes or any parikkhara to any one else
or to receive it from any one ; (ii) shave any one elsс or to get himself shaved by any one ; (iii) wait upon any one else or to let any one wait upon himself; (iv) go with any one else as an attendant-monk or to take any one
as an attendant-monk ; (v) carry any one else's alms to the vihära, or to have his alms
carried by any one else ; and (vi) go to a village or a cemetary or abroad on journey. 2
Like the Buddhist, a Jaina teacher was also obliged to supply the material requisites of his disciples, but he was perhaps not asked to give menial services to his disciples in normal circumstances. Like the Buddhists, the Jaina monks were not allowed to :
(i) accept food for and to give it to a sick monk, * (ii) receive a begging-bowl,
1. Vinaya Texts (SBE, Vol. XIII) p. 49, fn. 5. ? MV, 1. 18. 66, p. 47; 1. 23. 78, p. 61-62; CV, 8. 11. 21, p. 332; 8.13 25, p. 340. 3. Thān, 544, p. 385b. 4. Kæpp (SBE Vol. XXII), p. 297. 5. Bghk, 1. 30.42: