{"collection":"Jainism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jai/sbe22/sbe2268.htm","path":"jai/sbe22/sbe2268.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe22/sbe2268.htm","text":"Jaina Sutras, Part II (SBE22), tr. by Hermann Jacobi, [1884]\nA monk or a nun wanting to get a bowl, may beg for one made of bottle-gourd or wood or clay, or such-like bowls. If he be a youthful, young, &c. (see II, 5, 1, \u00a7 1) monk, he may carry with him one bowl, not two 2.\nA monk or a nun should not resolve to go farther than half a Yogana to get a bowl.\nAs regards the acceptance of a bowl, those four precepts which have been given in (the First Lesson of the First Lecture, called) 3 Begging of Food, concerning one fellow-ascetic, &c., should be repeated here, the fifth is that concerning many Sramanas and Br\u00e2hmanas.\nA monk or a nun should not accept a bowl which the layman has, for the mendicant's sake, bought, &c. (see the Lecture called Begging of Clothes 4). (I )\nA monk or a nun should not accept any very expensive bowls of the following description: bowls made of iron, tin, lead, silver, gold, brass, a mixture of\ngold, silver, and copper, pearl, glass, mother of pearl, horn, ivory, cloth, stone, or leather; for such very expensive bowls are impure and unacceptable. (2)\nA monk or a nun should not accept bowls which contain a band of the same precious materials specialised in \u00a7 2; for &c. (3)\nFor the avoidance of these occasions to sin there are four rules for begging a bowl to be known by the mendicants.\nNow this is the first rule:\nA monk or a nun may beg for a bowl specifying its quality, viz. bottle-gourd or wood or clay. If they beg for such a bowl, or the householder gives it, they may accept it, for it is pure and acceptable.\nThis is the first rule. (4)\nNow follows the second rule:\nA monk or a nun may ask for a bowl, which they have well inspected, from the householder or his wife, &c. After consideration, they should say: 'O long-lived one! (or, O sister!) please give me one of these bowls, viz. one made of bottle-gourds or wood or clay.' If they beg for such a bowl, or the householder gives it, they may accept it; for &c.\nThis is the second rule. (5)\nNow follows the third rule:\nA monk or a nun may beg for a bowl which has been used by the former owner or by many people. If they beg for it, &c. (see \u00a7 5).\nThis is the third rule. (6)\nNow follows the fourth rule:\nA monk or a nun may beg for a left-off bowl which no other Sramana or Br\u00e2hmana, guest, pauper, or beggar wants. If they beg for it, &c. (see \u00a7 5).\nThis is the fourth rule.\nA monk or a nun having adopted one of these four rules should not say, &c. (see II, 1, t r, \u00a7 12, all down to) we respect each other accordingly. (7)\nA householder may perhaps say to a mendicant begging in the prescribed way: 'O long-lived Sramana! return after a month,' &c. (all as in the Lecture called Begging of Clothes 1). (8)\nThe householder may say (to one of his people): 'O long-lived one! (or, O sister!) fetch that bowl, rub it with oil, ghee, fresh butter or marrow, we shall give it,' &c. (see II, 5, 1, \u00a7 11); or wash, wipe, or rub it with perfumes,' &c.; or 'wash it with cold or hot water;' or 'empty it of the bulbs,' &c. (see II, 5, 1, \u00a7\u00a7 11 and 12). (9)\nThe householder may say (to the mendicant): 'O long-lived Sramana! stay a while till they have cooked or prepared our food, &c., then we shall give you, O long-lived one! your alms-bowl filled with food or drink; it is not good, not meet that a mendicant should get an empty alms-bowl.' After consideration, the mendicant should answer: 'O long-lived one! (or, O sister!) it is indeed not meet for me to eat or drink food &c. which is \u00e2dh\u00e2karmika; do not cook or prepare it; if you want to give me anything, give it as it is.' After these words the householder might offer him the alms-bowl filled with food or drink which had been cooked or prepared: he should not accept such an alms-bowl, for it is impure and unacceptable. (10)\nPerhaps the householder will bring and give the mendicant an alms-bowl; the mendicant should then, after consideration, say: 'O long-lived one! (or, O\nsister!) I shall in your presence closely inspect the interior of the bowl.'\nThe Kevalin says: This is the reason: In the alms-bowl there might be living beings or seeds or grass. Hence it has been said to the mendicant, &c., that he should closely inspect the interior of the alms-bowl. (11)\nAll that has been said in the Lecture called Begging of Clothes (II, 5, I, \u00a7 15 down to the end) is mutatis mutandis to be repeated here. (In \u00a7 15, add before perfumes) with oil, ghee, butter or marrow.\nThis is the whole duty, &c.\nThus I say. (12)\n166:1 P\u00e2esan\u00e2.\n166:2 This applies, according to the commentator, to Ginakalpikas, &c. Ordinary monks may have a drinking vessel besides the alms-bowl.\n166:3 See II, 1, 1, \u00a7 11.\n166:4 II, 5, 1, \u00a7 3.\n168:1 II, 5, 1, \u00a7 10.","title":"Jaina Sutras, Part I (SBE22): \u00c2k\u00e2r\u00e2\u1e45ga S\u00fbtra: Book II, Lecture 6, Lesson 1","type":"page"}