Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1861
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1861
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c19.1861
The people of Sindhu were fond of eating *gorasa* (production of milk),⁷⁶³ and were used to meat-eating, and hence the non-vegetarians were not censored in this country.⁷⁶⁴ Similarly, the washermen were not considered degraded here,⁷⁶⁵ and a wine pot could be used for drinking purposes.⁷⁶⁶ It is stated that the monks were allowed not to remove the fringes of their garments in this country like that of Thūnā,⁷⁶⁷ and they received their alms with clean clothes.⁷⁶⁸