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
play, quarrel or fight, the houses of kings, officers' and relatives?. Thus causing no injury either to living beings or to their own person or celibacy they were to beg aims within an area of half a yojana all around the place of their stay. They were to reach the house of a donor when the food was ready. 4 As it was feared to result in the loss of celibacy, destruction of life, obstruction to other monks and lastly exciting anger of the householders; sitting in the house of a donor was not allowed to a monk moving for alms. Only a monk overpowered with old age, ailing from some illness or practising penance was allowed to do so
A monk, as a rule, must beg at all houses without any distinction of the status of their inhabitants. But as he intends to procure pure and admissible food, he may visit only noble families.8 In case of special vows as regards food donor or time, he may also disobey the rules of begging and beg in peculiar ways.
Normally, a monk accepts whatever he is offered to in begging. But the use of bulbs (kanda); roots (mū!a); fruits, green vegetables, sprouts and blossoms of trees; juice of raw fruits, raw rice, honey, liquor, ghee, curds, molasses and oil, etc.; food specially prepared for monks (uddesiyapind a); food offered by the owner of the house occupied by the monks (sajjāyarapinda); royal food (rāyapinda); food from a festival (samkhadi) and food dripping with ghee or oil, etc. are deemed unfit for a monk. 10
He can, if he is in such a need, take food while on the beggingtour.11 But normally he takes it after coming back to his lodge. First of all after his return from the begging-round, he shows the
1. Ayar (SBE, Vol. XXII), 2 1.5.2.4 (pp. 99-101); Dasv, 5-1.3-16. 2. Ibid, 2.1.4.4 (p. 98). 3. Ibid, 2.1.2.5 (p.93);Bhag, 269, pp. 291b-292a; Kapp (SBE. Vol. XXII),p. 297. 4. Ibid, 2.1.4.3 (
P 98) 5. Ibid, 2.1.6.2 (p. 103); Dasv, 5-2.8-9. 6. Brhk, 3.22. 7. Daso, 5-1.14. 8. Ibid, 5-1.10-11, 5-1.16-17. 9. Ultar, 30.19; Thān, 514, p. 365 b. 10. Dasv, 5-1. 70-75; 5-2. 14-24; 3.3; 7.57; Ayar (SBE. Vol. XXII), 2,1.1. 11-14
(pp. 90-91); 2.1.2.3 (P. 92); 2. 1.3.5 (p.96); 2.1 6.8 (p. 104); 2.1.6.9 (p. 104); 2.1.7.1 (p. 105); 2.1.7.5 (p. 107); 2.1 9.1 (p. 111); 2.1.9.3 (p. 112); Vide Infra,
Articles of food'. 11. Dasv, 5-1. 82-83,