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JAINISM
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If food is taken at all on the day of fasting, it should not be between sunset and the following sunrise. It is usual to keep to one place, do no business, and drink nothing or eat nothing for twelve, twenty-four, forty-eight or seventy-two consecutive hours, once a week, once a month, or at least once a year.
PARTIAL TRANSGRESSIONS*
1. The first of these refers more to India or any hot country; it is not being particular to avoid killing insects by one's clothes or one's bedding; and
2. Not taking something to clear away whatever insects there may be.
3. Not being particular to avoid killing anything, in performing the offices of nature.
4. Despising the ceremony itself.
5. Forgetting any of the necessary things to be done in this vow.
TWELFTH VOW
(ATITHISAMVIBHAGA VRATA)
"Atithisamvibhaga" vow. Atithi means a guest, and samvibhaga means to distribute, share with. The vow is an undertaking to invite some Jain monk (or, in the absence of a monk, some respectable Jain layman, or, in the absence of both, to do so in thought), on the day following the fast undertaken in the previous vow, or whenever opportunity offers, to partake of some of the food about to be eaten, without informing the guest of the
* Tattvartha, S. VII, 29. Yogasastra, III. 117. For Private & Personal Use Only
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