Shaiva kings patronised Jain mendicants, and Jain officials patronised Brahmana poets. In the fourfold community, the mendicants (monks and nuns) center their lives around asceticism. Some are anchorites, homeless mendicants preferring solitude and seclusion in remote parts, without affiliation. Early mendicants created texts in order to forward the project of Christianization. The "Avadhuta" is one category of mendicants, and is described as antinomian. As mendicants, they were accustomed to travel. In pursuit of their spiritual beliefs, states Olivelle, the "mendicants eat other people's left overs". He is currently collaborating with Joe Pernice in The New Mendicants. The Mendicants before fronting hardcore band Thousand Year Suffering. The mendicants did not protest their expulsion. Pernice has collaborated with Norman Blake and Mike Belitsky in The New Mendicants. A New Mendicants album Into The Lime was released in 2014. Mahavira initiated his mendicants with the "mahavratas" (Five Vows). In the 1830s, he started painting genre pictures, such as "The Poor Mendicants" (1837).