Studies in Buddhist and Jaina Monachism

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

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calani', antoniyaṁsanī? and bahiraniyamsani?, on the lower part of the body', and five, narnely, kañcuka, okacchiyab, vegaschi?, sanghadis and khandhakarani' on the upper portion of the body1o.
Against the strict discipline of the Jainas which allowed no lavishness or stock-piling of clothes, 11 the Buddhists are marked by the following relaxations as regards the use of robes.
It is true that it was not beseeming to the monks to receive and use extra robes in normal circumstances as the ordinary dress of a monk consisted of three robes only. But circumstances, however, forced the framers of the rules to grant some concession in this respect at least for a limited period of time, if not for ever. Thus a gift of special robe, offered ten days before the close of the later period of the retreat was to be received till the kathina-robe had been settled. * Again, if after taking up the store of robes (ubbhatasmim kathine)', one's robe had been made or if one's robe had been spoiled or destroyed or burnt, or if one's hope to receive lay-robe had ended, then one could possess an extra set of robes for a period of ten days only." These two exceptions to the general rule are enough to reveal that extra robes could be received ten days before and after the pavāraṇā ceremony. But it is remarkable that an extra set of robes could also be accepted out of season even, if anybody so wished and the period of possession in such case is longer than those in the previous cases, viz. one month."
1. Bhāşya to OghN, 315. 2. Ibid, 316.
Ibid. 4. BrhkB, Vol. IV, 4084-87. 5. Bhasya to OghN, 317. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid, 318. 8. Ibid, 318-19; ByhkB, Vol. IV, 4089-90.
Bhasya to OghN, 320. 10. BịhkB Vol. IV, 4088-91. 11. je bhikkhu tihim vatthehi parivusie......, tassa ņam no evam bhavai--
cauttham vattham jāissāmi.--Ayar, 1. 7. 5.1. je bhikkhu dohir vatthehim parivusie....., tassa ņam no cvam bhavai--taiyari vattham jāigsämi.-- Ibid, 1. 7. 5. 1. je bhikkhu egeņavatthena parivusie......, tassa nanå no
evam bhavai--biiyari vattham jāissāmi.--Ibid, 1.7.6.1. 12. PM, 4. 28. 13. Ibid, 4. 1. 14. Ibid, 4. 3.