Studies in Buddhist and Jaina Monachism

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

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STUDIES IN BUDDHIST AND JAINA MONACHISM
peculiar to the Jainas. Thus any restriction however severe for them onks and disagreeable to the society it might have been, once imposed upon the brotherhood was very rarely abrogated or amended. Instead, it was made from severe to severer and severer to severest. Thus we would see in the coming pages that the ideal of non-possession culminated in its severest form as nudity, the purity of food gave rise to hair-splitting rules, and the quest for a suitable abode for the monks was made a huge task.
Now the four resources of the monks will be studied one by
one,
(a) Pindiyalopabhojana
In
We have just seen that the first and foremost requisite of a monk belonging either to the Buddhist or to the Jaina Order was food. the beginning both of them used food gathered from begging-tours alone. The use of such food was called pindiyalopabhojana by the first and goyarabhoyana by the latter. Our study would reveal that the Buddhists due to various reasons relaxed the strictness of the rule without any loss of time, while the Jainas not only retained the strictness but made it even more austre by imposing several other restrictions upon the various aspects of food.
(i) The nature of food allowed to the mendicants
In both the systems the nature and purity of food have been discussed in great details. Tikotiparisuddha', i.e. free from the faults of being seen, heard or suspected as unacceptable; 'navakoḍiparisuddha", i.e. free from any injury to sentient beings, cooking or buying the food oneself, etc.; 'dasadosavivajjiya"", i.e. free from the tenfold faults such as suspecting the purity of food, etc.; and 'uggamuppa yaṇesaṇāsu. parisuddha', i.e. free from the forty-two faults pertaining to the nature and aim and method of preparation of food, the ways and
na, bhikkhave, janam uddesa-katam mamsam paribhuñjitabbam. yo paribhuñjeyya patti dukkaṭassa. anujinami, bhikkhave, tikotipari suddham macchamamsam--adiṭṭham asutam aparisankitam ti --MV,
6. 19.35, p. 253; CV, 7. 9. 14, pp. 298f.
2. samaneņam bhagavata mahāvīreṇam samaṇānam niggamṭhānam ṇavakodiparisuddhe bhikkhe paṇatta tamjaha na hanai na haṇāvai hanamtam nanujiņai na patati na pataveti patamtam nanujaṇati na kinati na kiṇāveti kinamtam ṇānujaṇati.--Than, 681, p. 452 a.
3. Than, 743, p. 492 a.
4. Uttar, 24. 12.
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