History of Jaina Monachism

SR No.: 001727
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 616
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & History
File Size: 12 MB

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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM The practice of the pratimās was to be done with perfect care. Any mistake in the last pratimā was said to lead to long illness or hysteria.295
The monk intending to practise the pratimās separated himself from the other members of his group (egallavihāra). He could speak with them only on four occasions, to wit, to ask for something (yācaṇī), to ask the proper road (pucchaņi), to give consent to something (aņuņņavaņi), and to give reply to a question (puţthassa vāgarani).296 Total Period:
As the period of the previous pratimā was taken into consideration when practising the next one, the whole group of twelve pratimās was finished in seven months, three weeks, one day (i.e., night and day), and one night. Other Padimās:
Besides these, there were four other paļimās. They were:
Name
Period
No. of alms
No. of dattis
Sattasattamiyā
49 days
196
One on first day and seven (each of
drink and food), on the seventh day. The same procedure for 7 weeks. One to eight. One to nine. One to ten.
Atthatthamiyā Navanavamiya Dasadasamiyā
64 days 81 days 100 days
288 405 550
Major Fasts:
There are mentioned a number of fasts of various designations which were as follows: (a) Ayambalavaďdhamāna:
This was a penance in which a single āyambila food was taken once a day. Ayambila meant pure food like boiled rice which was not mixed with anything else. The āyambila was followed by a caüttha fast, then the monk took two āyambila meals, then again the caüttha and so on, till he attained the hundredth āyambila meal. The whole penance was completed in fourteen years, three months and twenty days.297
295. Thān. p. 147b. 296. Ibid., p. 183b. 297. Amtg, p. 52.