Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

SR No.: 001615
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 686
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Canon
File Size: 12 MB

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
[Ch. VII
There are stated to be ten kinds of Pratisevanās which should be given up by a monk for the attainment of his spiritual progress, viz. Darpa (pride or conceit), Pramāda (spiritual inertia or negligence), Anābhoga (wrong attention), Atura (suffering or sickness in body and mind or from hunger and thirst etc.), A padi (misfortune), Sankīrṇa (mental confusion), Sahasākāra (suddenness or unexpectedness), Bhaya (fear), and Pradvesa (hatred or jealousy).
Faults
Similarly there are ten kinds of faults of confession which should be corrected and given up by the monks for the practice of religion, viz. faults of ākampya (a confession after pleasing the preceptor in advance by service), confession of anumānya (by observing light punishment in anticipation of preceptor's approval), Yaddrsta (confession of what has been exposed to the preceptor), of bādaram (confession of the gross transgressions), of Sikşmam (confession of some select minor transgressions in order to conceal other major and minor ones), of channa (confession in secrecy), of sabdākulam (confession aloud within the hearing of the unexperienced monks), of bahujana (confession of the same transgression before more than one preceptors), avyakta (confession before an unexperienced preceptor), and of tatsevž (confession of a transgression before a monk who is himself guilty of the same fault.
The houseless monk endowed with the following ten qualities is worthy to discuss his own faults and to make self-analysis, viz. (if) he is of good birth (or caste) and family and endowed with moral training, knowledge, right attitude of mind, conduct, patience, restraint, guilelessness and nonrepentance after self-analysis of guilt. And also the houseless monk who is practiser of rules of conduct, i.e. virtuous (ācāravān), holder of the vow with promise not to do again the self-analysed guilts (ādhāravān), practiser of five Vyavahāras, viz. Agama, Sruta, Ājnā, Dhāraņā and Jita as already mentioned, unashamed to conceal the faults (apavrīdaka), able to purify himself by