________________ 134 Siri Sirivalakaha St. 236. jeragut see notes on St. 218. St. 237. ugqueeft (Sk. Frunica ). In the Festival of Bathing ( the Siddhachakra ). jeres ( Sk. uifacies) . The Pacifying Water', generally known as nomana among the laymen. Here it is called Pacifying Water because it pacifies or alleviates formidable diseases like leprosy etc., and cures them, and also because it pacifies the mental pain that we experience in. this miserable worldly life. Even to-day it is the experience of many that by the sprinkling of this water or nomana ( which we get from the Pk. word nhuvana ) on the body, diseases such as leprosy etc. are cured or alleviated. Hence it is that many of the Jainas have continued this practice of applying the water of namana to their bodies especialy on the eyes, and chest etc. even upto-day. St. 238.3468ftar (Sk. starf) Wonder (see Hem. VIII. 1. 58 ). St. 239. ti ( Sk. atat:) lit. faults; then secondarily it means ' evils'. TE ( Sk. E) a planet; it also means a kind of evil demon. Any of these two meanings can be taken here. St. 240. Ereto for these various
