Acaranga-sutra
by Hermann Jacobi | 1884 | 71,211 words | ISBN-10: 8120801237 | ISBN-13: 9788120801233
The English translation of the Acaranga Sutra, which represents the first the 12 Angas in Shevatambara Jainism. It is traditionally dated to the 5th-century BCE and consists of two parts containing lectures based on the teachings of Mahavira. Topics include: lifestyle of an ascetic: conduct, behavior, collecting alms, clothes, mode of walking and ...
Lecture 9
[Ninth lecture (uddesaya, uddeśaka): Nisīhiyasattikkayaṃ; niṣīthikā = svādhyāyabhūmiḥ.]
When a monk or a nun wishes to go to a pure place for study, they[1] should not accept one which is infected by eggs or living beings, &c.; for it is impure and unacceptable. But if that place for study to which they wish to go, is free from eggs or living beings, &c., they may accept it; for it is pure and acceptable.
In this way all that has been said in the corresponding passage about couches[2] should be repeated here as far as ‘water-plants.’ (1)
If parties of two, three, four, or five (mendicants) resolve to go to the place for study, they should not embrace or hug, bite with their teeth or scratch with their nails each other’s body.
This is the whole duty, &c,
Thus I say. (2)
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
The original has the first person cetissāmi.
[2]:
Sejjā-gameṇa.