Atonements In Ancient Ritual Of Jaina Monks

SR No.: 011039
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Collete Caillat
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 231
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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... case, five days in the first. (which would increase to ten for the uvajjhaya
and fifteen for the āyariya, :of K p. 12). The maximum duration is of six months (ibid).
1. The cheya prescribed for the monk who, while performing a tava *comimits the same fault 'three times running - when he is, moreover; full of vigour and without any excuse :
eesim annayaram nirantaram aticarejja tikkhutto
nikkäranám'agilāņé páñca u rāimdiyā chedo (Bh 128; cf. 135), : * ? '46 a '7 f. specify that the cheya is light or heavy according to the kind
of mortification which it follows. It counts the same number of months as the latter. . All these passagès confine themselves to giving theoretical Information about the cheya. It is possible that there is hardly anything to add to it.
However, it seems that the effects of the penance were consolidated by :study - in particular; perhaps, by study of the Cheya-suttas. These are the
Ayaradasão (amoug which is to be found the Pajjosavaņākappa), the Kappa-, Vavahāra-, Nisiha-sutta, the Mahānistha-sutta, ihe Pañcakappa, and finally the Jiyakappa - that is, collections which deal principally with discipline
(cf. Lehre $ $ 51 f.). 201 . It does not appear that the Jaina cheya had exact equivalents in the other
religious communities of India. It has been compared to the paticchanna parivāsa of the Buddhists. We know that this probation" is observed, if necessary, by a monk who has concealed his fault. It lasts as long as did his life by omission, after which the bhikkhu resumes bis previous status. Or again, it is imposed on a religious from another sect who remains, in this way, four months in the rank of novice. The permanent loss of a part of one's - religious seniority is not the most characteristic trait of this observance.?
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... 1. On this name, "SCC H. R, KAPADIA, A History of the canonical Literature of the
Jainas, p. 35 ff.; SCHUBRING, Drei Chedasūtras des Jaina-Kanons, p. 2. "
2. But Vin prescribes the chedanaka pācittiya (IV 168, 26,** etc.), "offence of expiation .. involving cutting down" (Horner, SBB XIII, p. 90 and n. 5. etc.; cf. index 1, s. v. :: "cutting down"): cp. the chejja (-vaishu), "maiming", "punishment” (Vin III 109, 24;
47, 7; SBB X.191 and n. 1; PED, S. v. cheda, chedaka, chedana, chedanaka: -Compare maiming as punishment (karna - nāsī-)cchedana, Arth 4, 12, 33; also 4, 11, 24 (and the mitigation, ib 26).