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deals with cautious and careful walking so as to avoid killing or injuring animal life, with speaking agreeable and true words and refraining from frivolous and barsh language injuring the feelings of others with taking and eating food free from forty-five im. purities, with the use of taking up or putting down the articles after carefully clearing the ground and with the disposal of dirty things in a place free from insects or worms. The ascetics have also to obserye threefold restraint of the body, mind and speech. The directions as embodied in Charan Sittari ( daily duties ) and Karan Sittari as summed up in the
Study of Jainism,' are as mentioned below:- I Observance of five great vows. II Practising ten kinds of moral virtues. III Exercing seventeen kinds of restraints. IV Ten kinds of Vaiyayritya or acts of showing regard and concideration to ten orders of holy beings. V Practising nine kinds of chastity. VI Trio of knowledge, faith and practice. VII Practising twelve kinds of Tapas or austerities. VIII Exercising four kinds of control over feelings such as anger etc.
I Pindavishuddhi, II Five restraints, III Twelve Bhāvnās. ( Reflections on the evanascence of the world etc.) IV The twelve Pratimas or fasts. V Five restraints referring to the control of five senses. VI Twenty five Pratilekhanas. VII Restraints of mind, body and speech. VIII Abhigrahas or regulations-these eight groups relate to Karan sittari-a combination of seventy directions intended for. observance when occasion arises. Roaders
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