Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.70

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Shelter was another problem before the *sādhus*. In some countries it was very difficult for the monks to get shelter and under such conditions they had to put up in the shrine or a deserted house (*sunnaghara*) where there was trouble from women, eunuchs, wild beasts, snakes, mosquitoes, ants, dogs, and robbers.⁴² It is ordered that the monks should supervise their residence thrice a day, because it may so happen that the women might leave their new born babe there, or the robbers might leave the stolen property, or a person might murder his enemy and leave him, or a woman might commit suicide near their residence.⁴³ Nuns were more troubled due to want of residence and so often they lost their morals.⁴⁴