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SANNYASA DHARMA
the enumeration of saints in the first
Chapter). (ix) parihāra, humiliating before the community
by making the offender to salute and sit below newly-ordained saints, which may be done in an ordinary vase without further degradation, or, in more serious cases, by first making him visit and confess his faults before seven different acharyas, one after another ; and, in the worst cases, by proclaiming him before the whole community and
then turning him out ; (2) sraddhāna the re-acquisition of, in other
words, re-entering into Right Faith. As a rule of alochana (confession) is only made
before the leader of a songha, that is to say, before an achārya. not before any one else, not even before an ordinary saint, unless under exceptional circum. stances. If this rule is not observed it will give rise to many abuses. The ācharya should hear the confession in private, and should not divulge its purport be. fore any one. There are no bard and fast rules for the determination of the penance proper--that is to say, its amount and type. Every case must be considered on its owu merits. lu practice,
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