Why do Jain saints use peacock feathers for their broom?

Actually it is not a broom. It is known as Picchi or Picchika. In above picture, you can find two kind of materials. One at the left is kamandal and the other at the right is known as picchi. A digambar sadhu has 5 mahavrats: 1. read more

Jain Saints use broom of peacock's feathers to use it as a tool for non-viloence. They use it to clean the place where they gonna sit,so that no insect get hurt. Remember they use the feathers of peacock which got detached from its body now. read more

The peacock is the only bird whose feathers are allowed to be sold – and this became a part of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 – solely because the Jains put so much pressure on the Congress party and Smt. Indira Gandhi. So, shops came up selling feathers and other people started buying the easily available feathers. read more