Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t4.10
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t4.10
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c14.t4.10
Besides, other parivrājakas are mentioned⁹⁴.— Caraka⁹⁵—It is said that they begged alms while moving in company (dhāṭivāhaka) and they moved on while eating. They accepted cleansed (dhōvuta) alms and put on a lion-cloth (kacchotaka). It is said that these mendicants were the direct descendants (sūnu) of Kapilamuni.⁹⁶ These mendicants got up in the morning and swept the shrines of Skanda and other deities, anointed them and burnt incense in the temple 97 The *Vyavahāra Bhāṣya* records religious discussion between a *Caraka* and the *Kṣullakas*98