Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c15.3

c15.3

These travelled over the country during the year and spent the four rainy months at one of these monastic establishments In the month of Śrâvaṇa the monks held the ceremony of robing, at which the old clothes were thrown away and new ones worn To provide these for them, charitable persons deposited, as we have seen, sums of money with certain guilds with directions that out of the interest new robes should be purchased and given to the priests Villages were assigned by kings and their officers for the support of these religious establishments The mendicant priests often travelled by sea, and hence at the head of several of the creeks in the Konkan we have cave monasteries intended as Dharmas'a'lâs or rest-houses for them We have such caves at Chiplun, Mahâd, and Kuda situnted respectively on the Dâbhol, the Bânkot and the Râjpuri creeks For those who landed at the head of the Bombay harbour or at Ghodbandar, there were the Kânheri caves