Jaina Ethics

SR No.: 001334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dayanand Bhargav
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 314
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Principle
File Size: 15 MB

Page 204

Penances
187 (ix) Avyakta dosa : To express one's fault before a person who is devoid of the three jewels is called avyakta.
(x) Tatsevita doșa : It means asking for prāyaścitta from a person who himself is involved in the same type of lapses for which prāyaścitta is to be prescribed.?
Pratikramana :
This means self-condemnation for a transgression. The transgression may be in connection with speaking lie under the influence of sex,3 throwing bodily excrements in prohibited areas, 4 forgetting about vaiyyāvrtya or service of the saints5 and being excited sexually..
Tadubhaya
It means performing both ālocanā and pratikramaņa for such faults as are committed unintentionally, i.e. bad dreams etc.?
Viveka
It means renunciation of an objectionable thing. Prāyaścittasamuccaya gives the following conditions for giving up an object :
1. When it is objectionable. 2. When there is doubt about its purity. 3. When a part of it is objectionable. 4. When impure thoughts have become associated with
it, even though it is pure. 5. When one intends to take food at night for fear of
illness or famine. 6. When objectionable food has been served or a part
of it has been put in the mouth.8
1. Bhagavati-Ārādhanā 599. 2. Ibid., 602. 3. Prāyaścittasamuccaya, 48. 4. Ibid., 48. 5. Ibid., 191. 6. Prāyaścittasamuccaya, 192. 7. Virasena on Satkhandāgama, 5.4.26., Vol. XIII, p. 60.
Also Pújyapāda on Tattvārthasütra, 9.22. 8. Prayascittasamuccaya, 196-202.