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 JAÍNA MONACHISM
The only concern of the first section will be to examine the various Sangha units and the hierarchy of officers along with their duties, obligations and requisite qualifications. The laws of polity, as a matter of fact, is a wide term, and, therefore, may comprise all the rules regulating manners and deportment of a monk. Thus the laws in this section fall under two main categories, the one relating to food and drink, dress and sanitation, diseases and cures,......in brief, the laws pertaining to day-to-day life of a monk, and the other as regards transgressions and expiations, offences and punishments, disputes and the procedure with which they are dealt, etc. Here it may be clearly stated that this section will be devoted to the discussion of the rules coming under the second category only as the rules comprising the first have, more or less, already been dealt with. The last section will be confined to the discussion of the groups of transgressions and expiations stated as the rules of Pratimokşa and Prayaścitta by the Buddhists and the Jainas respectively.
1. Vide Supra, Chapter II.