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**Trivarnika Achar**
**153.** The number of food offerings for the righteous should be one hundred, half of that, or twenty-five.
**154.** If someone dies on an inauspicious day, week, constellation, or yoga, and the deceased is taken to be cremated after a long delay, then the performer should offer prayers with folded hands, circumambulate, and seek forgiveness from the learned. They should perform worship of Jin Bhagwan to the best of their ability, worship the Maha Yantra, perform Shanti Vidhan and Homa, and offer the Maha Mantra for chanting. They should offer food to one hundred, fifty, or twenty-five Dharma Asmas. They should perform veneration of nine, seven, or five Tirthankaras. This is the atonement for dying on an inauspicious day, etc.
**155-159.** If someone dies due to extreme famine, weapons, fire, water journey, etc., then this atonement is prescribed for their son, etc. They should worship the Maha Yantra, perform Shanti Homa, and perform an ablution of Jindev with one thousand eight or one hundred eight pots. They should perform their eight-substance worship. They should venerate ten, nine, seven, or five Tirthankaras. They should offer a cow, land, and food to the Tirthankaras and the learned. They should offer food to five pairs of Sadhus. They should offer food to the fire and then worship the supreme Jin. By doing this, the sins of the relatives will be pacified.
**160.** At that time, the learned should clearly state the atonement, and the performer should accept it to the best of their ability.