Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s2.3
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s2.3
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c12.s2.3
⁷ The Jain texts give a curious explanation of the term Māhana It is said that once Bharata invited the Jain monks to partake various kinds of eatables and their being refused, distributed them among the sātagas These sātagas were of simple nature and religious-minded, and whenever they saw anybody killing, they stopped him by saying “do not kill” (mā hana) and hence they came to be known as Māhanas (Ārā cū p 5 also cf ibid, p 213 f, Vasu p 184)