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Bhagavai 7:2:29-35
For the lay follower also, the fundamental virtues are five in number. In the Digambara tradition, the basic virtues of the lay follower are eight viz., the five anuvratas the partial renunciation and abstaining from alcoholic drinks, meat and honey. This appears to be a latter development. Really speaking, the five anuvratas only are the basic virtues of the lay follower.
The ten renunciations that have been mentioned in the Thanam (10/101) should be the uttaraguna pratyākhyāna i.e., subsidiary virtues, prescribed for the ascetic, as is evident from the Bhagaval 7/33. These ten renunciations are:
(1) aṇāgayam (anāgata)—predestined to practise beforehand the penance to be practised in future.
(2) aikkamtam (atikränta)-procrastinated-when the penance to be practised in present cannot be practised now, it is undertaken in the future.
(3) koḍisahiyam (koti-sahita)-coincidence of the last day of the previous penance and the first day of the next penance.
(4) niyamtiyam (niyantritam)-categorical resolve that-"I will undertake a specific kind of penance at a specific time," whether the renouncer is healthy or
sick.
(5) sāgāram (säkära)-to keep exception in the renunciation.
(6) aṇāgāram (anākāra)-renunciation without any exception.
(7) parimāṇakadam (parimāṇakṛta)-making a resolve to accept food only in definite measure with regards the number of spoonful quantity, morsel, number of houses to be visited for accepting food, number of items to be taken etc..
(8) niravasesam (niravaśesa)-renunciation in terms of total abstinence from food, drink, dainties and delicacies.
(9) sankeyam (samketa)-the renunciation in which some indication or hint is given.
(10) addhae (addhataḥ)-time-bound renunciation such as for one muhürtta (i.e., 48 minutes), one paurişi (to abstain from food for one quarter of the day-time after the sunrise).
In the period of composition of the Niryuktis, we find another classification of the subsidiary virtues, according to which there are twelve kinds of penances enumerated as subsidiary virtues. Šīlānkasūri, in his Sūyagado Vrii, quotes a verse which embodies the third form of classification of subsidiary virtues, which is a very developed form."
The vow of refraining from movement beyond a limited area (disivvayam) etc. are specific application of the fundamental virtues, so they have been called subsidiary virtues.
Digvrata (To restrict one's mvement in different directions)-It means the limitation of movements in upward, downward and horizontal directions.
Upabhoga-paribhoga-parimāņa Vrata (To restrict the usage and re-usage of the articles of consumption)--The vow of limiting the use of consumable and reconsumable goods-the objects that can be used only once such as food, drink etc. are upabhoga (consumable goods); those that can be used again and again are
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