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observer has to increase his food and water by one dole (af) till it reaches to 7 doles in 7 months. The eighth, the ninth and the tenth Standards are observed for 7 whole nights and days each, in which the observer has to fast alternately and to sit in different postures. The 11th should be observed for a whole night and day and penance to be done; the 12th is observed for one night when the observer has to practise a penance and has to abide in a cemetary taking a posture.
4. 17. गुणरयणं तवोकम्मं [ गुणरत्नं तपःकर्म ] This
one has
mortification lasts for sixteen months. In it the observer fasts for a day in the first month, for two days in the second and so on for sixteen days in the 16th month. During day to sit in a certain bodily posture facing the sun and at night in another posture without clothes on the body. The day-posture is Utku takasana while the night posture is Virasana, [ See enTua's com. Page. 86. ]
4. 19. दुरूहइ [ उद्रोहति ] climbs up; almost all the Mss. spell like this; Barnett prefers x; the stress on in Sanskrit it seems has brought about the metathesis and the preservation of the length of the syllable द्रो= रु. In पच्चोरुहद्द, I have not kept long.
