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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir 300 KALPA SUTRA. on every third day, is allowed to accept three kinds of drinks: water used for washing sesamum, chaff, or barley1. A monk who during the Paggusan eats one meal on every fourth day, is allowed to accept three kinds of water: rain-water, or sour gruel, or pure (i. e. hot) water. A monk who during the Paggusan keeps still more protracted fasts, is allowed to accept only one kind of drink: hot pure water. It must contain no boiled rice2. A monk who abstains from food altogether, is allowed to accept only one kind of drink: pure hot water. It must contain no boiled rice; it must be filtered, not unfiltered; it must be a limited quantity, not an unlimited one; it must be sufficient, not insufficient. (25) 10. A monk who during the Paggusan restricts himself to a certain number of donations3, is allowed to accept (e. g.) five donations of food, and five of drink; or four of food, and five of drink; or five of food, and four of drink. He may accept one donation of salt for seasoning his meat*. He should second, water with which squeezed leaves, &c. are sprinkled; the third, water used for washing threshed and winnowed rice (tandula). 1 Âkârânga Sutra II, 1, 7, § 8. The first is water used for washing sesamum, or, in Mahârâsh/ra, husked sesamum; the second, water used for washing rice, &c. (vrîhyâdi); the third, water used for washing barley. 2 The commentator says that the body of monks who fast longer than four days is usually inhabited by a deity; this seems to denote, in our language, mental derangement as a consequence of starving oneself. 3 Datti. The commentator does not explain this word. It seems to denote the quantity of food or drink which is given by one man. * The one donation of salt is meant to make up the five donations to which the monk confines himself. But he should not reckon For Private and Personal Use Only
SR No.020334
Book TitleGaina sutras
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorHermann Jacobi
PublisherClarendon Perss
Publication Year1884
Total Pages385
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size15 MB
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