A Jainpedia reference article on lay Jains giving alms (food) to mendicants, describing the practice as atithi-samvibhaga-vrata, a formally named vow of Jain lay conduct, grounded in the earliest Jain textual and oral tradition.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: a digitised reference resource produced by the Institute of Jainology with academic input rather than a peer-reviewed monograph, so rated below Heim (2004) but above a general encyclopedia. States plainly that lay food-giving to mendicants is formalized as one of the vows a lay Jain takes, atithi-samvibhaga-vrata ("the vow of sharing with a guest"), grounded in texts and oral tradition dating to the earliest Jain sources, and that the practice "gains merit" rather than carrying a stated penalty for falling short. Citation
PublisherJainpedia, the Institute of Jainology (jainpedia.org)
URLhttps://jainpedia.org/themes/practices/monks-and-nuns/giving-alms/
Source Typereference article
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