The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c10.83

c10.83

1. The beggars in general (*bhikkhāga*) owing to their swarming in all directions are compared with fishes (Ṭhāṇ. 341 b) and owing to their obtrusiveness of different intensity with worms (*ghuṇa*) (ibd. 185 b) eating up the outer or inner bark of a tree, its wood or its pith.
2. Comp. the AUTHOR, Dasav. p. VII.
3. *sparśuka* (LEUMANN), not *prāsuka*, as tradition will have it.
4. Comp. JACOBI SBE 45, 191 ff. after the Dīpikā on Utt. 24, 12.
5. Guṇaratna in his comm. to Haribhadra's Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya speaks of 32 *antarāya* and 14 *mala* (ed. SUALI p. 112. 1).