They are declared to be mendicants and enjoy all the privileges of the other mendicant orders.
Chunda prepared for the mendicants a mid-day meal, and after the meal the Buddha started for Kusinara.
The most important of these, the Dadu Panthi sect, founded by Dadu about the year 1600, has a numerous following in Ajmir and Marwar, one section of whom, the Nagas, engage largely in military service, whilst the others are either householders or mendicants.
Do you imagine that I am not able to supply the wants of so many mendicants?"
The mendicants, Dominican and Franciscan, took rapid root in England; the number of friaries erected in the reign of Henry III.