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accepted consecration in presence of Bhagawāna Mahāvīra. Āryā Mahākrsnā with the permission of Ārya Candanā began to practise Laghu Sarvatobhadra penance. The method of this penance is as followsFirst of all she observed one day fast and next day broke it up, took food without renouncing vigayas. Then observed two days' fast, in the same way observed three days', four days; five days' fast; again observed three days', four days', five days', one day and two days' fast penance. Then observed five days', one day, two days’, three days' and four days' fast. Then observed two days', three days' four day’, five days' and one day fast, again four days', five days’ one day', two days' and three days' fast. Thus Aryā Mahākrsnă completed the first series of small Sarvatobhadra penance. (See Table 10) This first series takes the time period of three months and ten days. Practising this series according to schedule prescribed by sūtras and in due order Arya Mahākrsnā observed one day' fast in second series of this penance and took food avoiding vigayas. As four series are told in Ratnāvali penance, so are the four series in this penance also. Taking food should also be known similar to that one. The first series was performed in one hundred days, among these twentyfive days were of taking meals and seventyfive days were of fast penance. Same is the number of days in second, third and fourth series. Thus the time period of all the four series is one year one month and ten days. In first series she took meals without renouncing vigayas, in second avoiding vigayas, in third even without smearing of vigayas and in fourth taking of āyambila gruel. R&C .
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