Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s2.t1.23

c14.s2.t1.23

We have already referred to Vesāyana, a Vinayavādī who was practising pāṇamā paṇayā with his arms uplifted when Mahāvīra and Gosāla arrived in Kummagāma¹³⁷ Mauryaputra Tāmali of Tāmalitti was another Vinayavādī, who had a wooden begging pot in which he received rice from every class of people He washed his rice twenty one times and by paying reverence to crows, dogs, cāṇḍālas etc, practised the pāṇamā paṇayā¹³⁸ Then pūraṇa is said to have practised the dāṇamā paṇayā He divided his alms into four parts one was given to travellers, another to crows and dogs, a thud to fish and tortoises and the remaining part he kept for himself¹³⁹