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**Introduction**
This text accepts the three types of *shalya* (afflictions) that a *shravak* (lay follower) should remove. It also criticizes past sins and accepts the *bal-pandit* death. This text briefly explains the *bal-pandit* death ritual. For a detailed explanation of this death, the author recommends his own work, the *Bhakt Parijna Prakiranak* (Discourse on the Knowledge of Devotees). The information presented in the original verses clearly indicates that either the author composed the *Bhakt Pariksha Prakiranak* (Discourse on the Examination of Devotees) before the *Atur Pratyakhyan Prakiranak* (Discourse on the Eager Renunciation), or he incorporated the content of the *Bhakt Pratyakhyan Prakiranak* while composing the *Atur Pratyakhyan Prakiranak*.
Up to verse 8, the text discusses the definition of *bal-pandit* death, the *swami* (spiritual guide), and the ritual. Then, in verse 9, it describes the fruits of this death, stating that the soul who practices *bal-pandit* death attains the *kalpoppan* (divine) *vaimanik* (celestial) realm as an immediate fruit. As a long-term fruit, it achieves liberation in seven births, starting from the highest realm.
From the latter half of verse 10 onwards, the text begins discussing *pandit-pandit* death, which concludes in verse 71, along with the end of the text. Thus, this *prakiranak* primarily focuses on elaborating the form of *pandit-pandit* death.
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In verse 11, the *sadhu* (monk) who is present for the *anashan* (fasting) is of the *pandit* class. He renounces the past sins, *agan nivaami*. He controls his current sinful activities, *pattu-bunu samvaremi*. He renounces future sins, *gala-ma pavya-vswami*. He apologizes for the transgressions, *atikram*, *vyatikram*, *atichaar*, *anaachar*, etc., that occurred in his virtues like vows, due to the 63 types of *durdhyan* (delusions) arising from the unconscious state of mind. The author uses aphoristic style to explain this. The mention of 63 types of *durdhyan* is a unique feature of the *Atur Pratyakhyan*, not found elsewhere. To understand the nature of these *durdhyan*, commentators have provided examples and named them.
Later authors have incorporated these names into verses. Some authors have even included the entire topic of 63 *durdhyan* from this text into their own works.
Various inauspicious emotions arise in the minds of beings bound by *moha* (attachment). The author has linked each of these inauspicious emotions, arising due to time, nature, karma, or cause, to the 73 *durdhyan* described here. Knowing these 63 *durdhyan* serves as a foundation for every practitioner to identify and eliminate their polluted mental states.
On this occasion, I feel compelled to mention that I encountered this *prakiranak* and the 63 *durdhyan* during my pilgrimage to the holy site of Shankeshwarji. At that time, our mental state, residing in the mind of the author, the great sage,