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an a-bharyā (non-wife) when one is observing Sila-vrata (a vow of celibacy), guņa vrata (meritorious vow) or a Pauşadha-vrata?
Bhagavāna:-Yes, Gautama! During the Sâmāyika and Pausadha Vrata, a house-holder has a dominant idea in his mind that his mother, father brother, sister, wife, son, daughter, his son's wife etc are none of them, his own. Although he has this idea in his mind his love towards them is not destroyed. Therefore, the intercourse is with bhāryā (wife) and not with an a. bharya.
Some Points of Distinction Follo vers of the Religion of the Tirthankaras make atonement for transgressions in the Sthūla Prāņātipata Vrata after paying attention to the forty-nine (49) varieties of transgressions done in the past; to the forty-nine (49) varieties of transgressious done in the present; and to the forty-nine (49) varieties of such trangressions as may be done in future They, thus, abstain from one hundred and forty-seven (147) kinds of transpressions of the Sthala (gross) Pranatipata Viramana Vrata (a vow of abstaining from doing injury to gross living boings). य वेति रएति वेति एत्ता सरएणं अरणिं महेति सर० २ अग्गि पाडेति २ अगि सधुकेइ २ समिहाकट्ठाइं पक्खिवइ समिहाकट्ठाई पक्खिवित्ता अग्गिं उज्जालेइ अग्गि उज्जालेत्ता-'अग्गिस्स' दाहिणे पासे सतंगाई समादहे । तं. सक बक्कलं ठाणं, सिज्जा मंडं कमंडलु ॥ १ ॥ दंडदारुं तहा पाण अणे ताई समारहे ॥ महुणा य घएण य तंदुछेहि य अगि हुणइ, अग्गि हुणित्ता चरु साहेइ चरुं साहित्ता बलिं वहस्सदेवं करेइ, बलिं वइस्सदेव करेत्ता अतिहिपूयं करेइ अतिपूर्य करेत्ता तओ पच्छा अप्पणा आहार माहारेति, तए णं से सिवे रायरिसी दोच छटुक्खमण उपसंपज्जित्ताण विहरइ, तए ण से सिवे रायरिसी दोच्चे छटुक्खमणपारणगंसि आयावणभूमीओ पचोरुहइ आयावण २ एवं जहा पढमपारणग नवर दाहिणगं दिसं
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