Book Title: Account of Jainism
Author(s): Unknown
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ Jainism. three salutations to each of the four directions, and giving up desires over the body are added to make up the Six Necessities. The five faults to be avoided here are [ 1 ] non-fixing of the body [ 2 ] the mind and [3] the tongue to one purpose, [ 4 ] non-reverence towards the Sumayika and [ 5 ] forgetting the lessons or the rites of the Samayika. The avoidance of these makes the Samayika faultless. The third Shiksha Vrita is Prôshadhôpavas. A man observing it has to keep a complete or partial fast on the prescribed i. e. every eightlı day of the Hindu fortnight. All the day is to Proshadho. be spent in a lonely place in reading pavas. scriptures or meditating over asceticism. The best form of this Vow is in observing it for the whole day prescribed, in addition to the preceding and following twelve lours. To be faultless, its observance must aroid (1) spreading the bed ( 2 ) observing the calls of nature (3) taking up necessary tools, without examination and cleaning of the ground, ( 4 ) Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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