Demons and inferior beings are also utilized in the same way, as when it is said that at the Teacher's birth the demons (spirits) showered gold upon the town.
The religious orders of the Cvet[=a]mbara sect contained nuns as well as monks, although, as we have said, women are not esteemed very favorably: "The world is greatly troubled by women.

People say that women are vessels of pleasure.

But this leads them to pain, to delusion, to death, to hell, to birth as hell-beings or brute-beasts." Such is the decision in the [=A]e[=a]r[=a]nga S[=u]tra, or book of usages for the Jain monk and nun.

From the same work we extract a few rules to illustrate the practices of the Jains.

This literature is the most tedious in the world, and to give the gist of the heretic law-maker's manual will suffice.
Asceticism should be practiced by monk and nun, if possible.