Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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Water too that has come from tanks, wells, ponds, etc.,
8. Krīta, when he has to buy the things.
9. Prāmitya, when he has to borrow the things from some one else.
10. Parāvịtti, when he makes any exchange of food, etc.
II. Abhyāhịta, when a layman carries food to the monks and gives it.
12. Udbhinna, when he has to open locks, before he gets at the food, etc., or opens something that is sealed.
13. Mālāpahsta, when he has to take the food, etc., from some raised or underground place, or from hanging receptacles.
14. Acchidya, when the food, etc., was taken by force from some body.
15. Anisçșța, when a man gives anything from a common store without asking the other owners.
16. Adhyavapūra, when the layman knows in advance that the monk may come and additional food is prepared.
There are also 16 faults, utpādana-dosas, that occur if the monk uses any means to make the layman give alms.
1. Dhātrikarman, when the monk plays with the layman's children.
2. Dūtakarman, when he gives him information about what his people are doing.
3. Nimitta, when he takes the rôle of a fortune-teller, i.e., he seeks favor by predicting good fortune.
4. Ajīvikā, when he makes his birth and family, former occupation, learning, etc., kuown to the layman.
5. Vanīpaka, when he professes to be the type of person that the layman favors.
6. Cikitsā, when he cures sick people. 7. Krodhapiņņa, when he extorts alms by threats.
8. Mānapiņda, when he tells the layman he has made a wager with other monks that he would get alms from him.
9. Māyāpiņņa, when he employs tricks or buffoonery in order to procure alms.
10. Lobhapiņda, when he goes begging from a desire for good fare.
II. Samstava-piņņa, when he flatters the layman, or when he pretends to know some one in his family to gain a favorable introduction.
12. Vidyāpiņa, when he makes a show of his learning; or when he conjures a god from whom to get alms.