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their duties as householders, there were some who
undertook the life of a hermit after some great shock or
after getting tired of life. We get an instance of a female
hermit (tāpasi) in the dowager queen of Magadha who
resided in a hermitage just outside Rajag?ha. This single
instance from Bhāsa does not entitle us to conclude that
no barrier was placed in the way of females embracing:
asceticism. The description of the hermitage would give
some idea as to the peace and sanctity that reigned there.,
These hermitages were away from the din and bustle of,
the town and were cosmopolitan in nature. Every one,
was free to go there. They were the houses, as it were of
the guests. The inmates there, who resided in huts, were
all satisfied, having no worldly desires to be fulfilled.
They wore bark-garments and lived on wild fruits, passing
their time in meditation. The whole atmosphere around
the hermitages breathed of freedom and abundance. The
deer roamed about freely, the trees were full of flowers
and fruits and there were a number of cows which
supplied milk to the inmates. the
evening, there arose from the hermitage lines of smoke.
Water also was to be had nearby, and the inmates used
to plunge for their bath thrice a day. According to Rhys
Davids, in those days" the hermitages where the learning
or the repeating of texts was unknown were the
exceptions". Perhaps it may be that through the
influence of Buddhism which included the Bhikkhunis in
the sacred order, the hermitages of the Hindus also were
mixed colonies of ascetics. Curiously enough, Vātsyāyana
does not refer to the Vanaprasthas; so it appears that
was going out of vogue by the fourth
this stage
century A. D.5
During midday and i ich
There were two classes of religious mendicants,
Tāpasa and Parivrājaka. Those staying in the hermitage
belonged to the Tapasa class, and the Parivrajakas
moved from place to place either alone or in the company
of their disciples. The queen-mother of Dar?aka
belonged to the hermit (Tāpasa) class
Yaugandharāya?a in disguise to the
(Parivrajaka) class.
and
wanderer
1 Cf. Pradhan, Chronology, p. 246. 2 Sarup, Vision, Notes, p. 102.
Svapna, I, 3, 5, 12, 16; pp. 16, 20, 25, 26. 4 Buddhist India, p. 141.
Chakladar, Social Life, pp. 111-112. 6 Rhys Davids, Buddhist India, pp. 140-141.
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