Holy Abu

SR No.: 023259
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayantvijay
Publisher: Yashovijay Jain Granthmala
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 380
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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[Holy Abu
Panchanga-Namaskara: Bowing down in such a way that five limbs of the body-two hands, two knees and the head-touch the grounds.
Pabasana: The seat or asana on which the figure of a Jina is placed.
Parikara Accessory decoration round the figure of a Jina the motifs in these are taken from the Jaina conception of eight chief objects attendant upon a Jina (ashta-maha-pratihāryāņi). They are the wheel of Law, the Chaitya-tree, the lion-seat, the aureole behind the head, two attendant flywhisk bearers, heavenly drum-beating and music represented by drum-beaters and pipe-players, celestial flowers represented by garland-bearers.
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Parṣada: Sabha. Assembly or audience.
Paduka Foot-prints.
Pauṣadha: Living like a Jain monk with certain religious practice or meditation (undertaken by a Jaina), lasting for a certain number of hours ( 12 or 24). 1 Pratibodha: Teaching in the Jaina Doctrine; Conversion to Jaina Faith.
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Prati-Vasudeva: Enemy of a Vasudeva in Jaina mythology. Pratistha Installation, consecration. Balanaka
Mandapa above the entrance of a Jaina shrine.
The poşadhavrata is the observance of the Chaturtha-fast, etc; on the four moon-days (eighth, fourteenth, full-moon, and the day before the new moon) in the month, abstention from wicked acts, chastity, abondonment of bathing etc, living temporarily like a monk.-Translator.
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2 Balanaka, in Jaina inscriptions, is the mandapa on the main entrance to the court-yard of a shrine. In the Maraṭhā period, this was specially used for auspicious music (sharanai or pipe accompanied with drum, etc. marking every three hours of a day or night), the pavilion being known as the Takorkhānā. The Balanakas of these mediaeval Jaina inscriptions were possibly used as such Ṭakorkhānās-Translator.