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

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________________ Jainism. Car has to perform six duties, . viz:- self-protection, maintaining purity of heart, up-holding the royal family and treating his subjects and his sons alike and subduing his foes. [ 3 ];Charity. [ 4 ] Reading and thinking. [5] Self restraint; and [ 6 ] Penance. The fifty- I shall now briefly, enumerate the fifty three ceremon es through which monies of the Ma lapuri a man living in family life is to pass. (1) Conception-cerenony. When a woman attains puberty, she and her husband should on the sixth day there-after go to the temple, perform worship and at night should go toge. ther only for the sake of progeny. Cohabitation without Ritu i. e. the time just following the monthly course, is prohibited. (2) Propitiation. In the th'rd.month after conception, worship, music etc should be performed to keep the pregnant woman delightful. 1 (3) Super-propritiation. The above cere Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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