Agam 08 Ang 08 Antkrutdashang Sutra Sthanakvasi

Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana, Rajkumar Jain, Purushottamsingh Sardar
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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last eight days eignut doles of meals and eight doles of water is taken. In all, this penance takes sixty four days to perform and total doles combined meals and water are two hundred eightyeight each. Arya Sukrsna performed this penance according to the schedule of sutra in due order. (See Table 7) After this, with the permission of Arya Candanā she accepted nun firm resolution penance of nine-nines. During first nine days she took onc dole of meals and one dole of water everyday. In this order she took nine doles of meals and nine doles of water in ninth-nine penance, for nine days. In all, this penance took eightyone day to perform and total doles, counting both meals and water. were four hundred five each. Ārya Suk!so performed this nun firm resolution nine-nines penance according to the schedule prescribed in sūtras. (See Table 8) Then āryā Sukrsnā accepted the nun firm resolution penance of ten-tens. During the first ten days she took one dole of meals and one dole of water everyday. Then increasing it she took ten doles of meals and ten doles of water everyday in the last ten days of this penance. This penance was completed in one hundred days and the total number of doles, counting doles of meals and water both, becomes five hundred fifty each. (See Table 9) Thus she practised these nun firm-resolution. penances according to the schedule prescribed in sūtras. Then Āryā Sukrsnī began to wander engrossing her soul with various types of penances like-one day fast and increasing upto fortnight and full month's fast penances. Due to these rigorous penances she became too weak. At the fag end of life she accepted samthārā and exhausting all karmas became beatified.
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