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Study of Cirakacintamani eradicate the karmas, then the doves which feed on pebbles and live in the hot desert will also be able to destroy their karmas. 1 If you believe that you can achieve the highest goal by growing long matted hair, bathing in water and sleeping on floors, then the bears in the forest will also attain salvation when they bathe in water. If you think that giving up a luxurious bed and living in huts and sleeping on the floor can eradicate karmas, then the karmas of the hunters who live in mountains under the same living canditions also will be destroyed. 3 ” After elucidating these, Civakan explains to them what is right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct and how 'they assist in the destruction of karmas.
Apart from giving dāna of knowledge, Civakan also does other kinds of dānas (gifts). Civakan gives auşadha dāna (gift of medicine) to Patumai who was bitten by a snake. 5 After acquiring his kingdom, he also donates gifts to the temple. He gives hundred villages to burn the lamp in the Jaina temple and four million gold pieces for making pūjā in the temple. After all these, he also gives a hundred elephants and a hundred chariots for the service of temples. The nature of gifts, their importance and the results of giving gifts are also explained by the cāraṇan who preaches Jaina doctrine to Civakan. He says that the best kind of gift is like sowing seeds in a fertile land which yields a bumper harvest and the bad kind of gift is like sowing seeds in a useless land. The best kind of gift is the gift given to the ascetics and the other kind is the gift given to the people of ordinary merit. He condemns giving gifts to sinful people. The cāraṇan also explains the vaiyāvịtya vow in detail. Through the explanation of the cārapan Tēvar brings out the explanation he borrowed from Rk. Rk says that the hospitality shown to an ascetic should be as follows ;
navapunyaih pratipattiḥ saptagunasamähitena śuddhena /
apasūna-ārambhāņām äryäņām isyate dänam // 9
(The welcoming of (and the offering good to) holy saints, who do not engage themselves in the householder's work (crushing, grinding, kindling fire and the like), having received them with the nine-fold ceremonies (i) prostrating oneself at his feet, (ii) offering him a high seat, (iii) washing his feet and applying the 'washing' to one's forehead in token of reverence, (iv) worshipping him, (v) saluting him, (vi-viii) preserving one's own mind, speech and body in a state of purity and (ix) offering him pure suitable food ) by a layman excelling in the seven (well known) virtues (i) faith, (ii) contentment, (iii) devotion, (iv) jñana (wisdom) (v) con rol of greed, (vi) forgiveness and (vii) sakti (energy or assiduity)
is called dada).1 1 Ibid, v. 1430 2 Ibid. v. 1431
3 Ibid, v. 1432 4 Ibid, v. 1436 5 Cc. v. 1290
6 Ibid, v. 2564 7 Ibid, v. 2823 8 Ibid, v. 2828
9 Rk. 113 10 Champat Rai Jain, translation for Rk., Arrah, 1917, pp. 52, 53.
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