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Notes Bk. II
275 :
ratna-samvatsaro yatra tad gunaratna-samvatsaram tapaḥ. (Where penance is a gem, it is gunaratna. When such penance is practised for a year, it is gunaratna-samvatsaram tapaḥ.]
Practised over a period of 16 months, it entails 407 days of fasting and 73 days of breaking the fast. The following which gives the details about the penance has been explained in the text above :
pannarasa vīsa cauvvīsa ceva cauvvisa panņavīsa ya cauvvisa ekkavisā cauvisā sattavisā yai 1 tisá tettīsā vi ya cauvvisa chayvīsa afthavīsa ya tīså battīsā vi ya solasa-măsesu tava divasa 2 pannarasa dasastha cha panca caura parcasu ya tinni tinni tti pancasu do do ya tahā solasa-masesu pärañagā 3
(details given in the text) The above may be written in a tabular form as follows : days of fasting
break
total 32 16 16 30 15 15 28 14 14 26 13 13
28 24 12 12
34
Au
30
26
36
33 30 27 24 21
33
11 10 9 8 7
11 10
9 8 7
11 10 9
30
27
7
11
24 25 24 4 24. 3 20 2 2
6 5
4 3 2
6 5
4 3 2
6 6 5 5 5 5
4 4 4 6 3 3 3 3 3 8 2 2 2 2 2 2 10
30
15
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
15
30
