Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.55

c14.t1.55

There were organised bands of robbers, already referred to, who attacked the travelling tradesmen and made good their escape. The robbers were not content with this, they also kidnapped men and women. They destroyed shrines and the articles thereof, they massacred the whole *gaccha* including the *ācārya* and carried off the nuns.³³ These robbers entered the residence of the *sādhus* and exacted trouble The *Br̥hatkalpa Bhāṣya* refers to a robber who snatched an excellent blanket *kambala-yana* from an *ācārya* at the point of a dagger ³⁴