Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.19

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Although we have seen that the membership of the Jain ascetic order was open to all, there were exceptions to the general rule and the following persons were excluded from entering the monastic order — Children,¹³ old man,¹⁴ eunuchs, dull (*jada*), timid (*kīva*) and sick persons, robbers, king’s enemies, lunatics (*unmatta*), blind, slaves, wicked and stupid persons (*mūdha*), debtors, deformed persons (*jātyanga-hīna*), attendants (*obaddhaā*), servants, forcibly converted (*sehanipphedia*), pregnant women, and young girls (*bālavaccha*).¹⁵