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SANNYASA DHARMA
clusion of a religious work, or study, or the reverence of revered objects.
Apart from this, the following duration in breath. periods has been prescribed for general purification after certain kinds of actions, and also otherwise, generally
one hundred and eight times during the day at the time of the daily pratikramana (confession), fifty-four times at night similarly,
three hundred times at the fortnightly pratikramand,
four hundred times at the end of the chaturmäsa (period of four months), and
five hundred times at the anniversary term '. During the whole of this period the saint should remain in an immovable position, with the mind and speech fully under control, and engaged in holy meditation and contemplation
The internal tapas is also of six kinds, which are enumerated below:
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(1) Prayaschita (penance) which is the working off of the evil effect of atichara (the doing of what is forbidden or the not doing of that which is enjoined). It is of ten kinds, namely,
(i) alochana (confession) with the full purity of the heart before the proper ächārya (head of saints);
(ii) pratikramana (the mental resolve to refrain
*There are ten kinds of faults of alochani (confession) which the confessing saint must avoid. These are: -
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