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accompanied by some fasting. By fasting we remove impurities. If the vow is taken it must be practised at least once a year. 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 drinking nothing or eat nothing for twelve, twenty-four, thirty-six, forty-eight or seventy-two consecutive hours once a week, once & 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. (Atithisamvibhāga vrita). "Atithisamvibhāga" 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
* Tattvarth, S. VII, 29. Vegasastra III, 117.
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