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observer has to increase this food and water by one dole ( : ) till it reaches to 7 doles in 7 months. The eighth, the ninth and the tenth Standards are observed for 7 whole nights and days each, in which the observer has to fast alternately and to sit in different postures. The 11th should be observed for a whole night and day and 38 penance to be done; the 12th is observed for one night when the observer has to practise 375H penance and has to abide in a cemetary taking a pitci posture.
4. 17. Torreyot Talent [gorcat 79:7] This mortification lasts for sixteen months. In it the observer fasts for a day in the first month, for two days in the second and so on for sixteen days in the 16th month. During day one has to sit in a certain bodily posture facing the sun änd at night in another posture without clothes on the body. The day-posture is Utkutakasana while the night posture is Vīrāsana. [ See spina's com. Page. 86.]
4. 19. GEET (Extefa] climbs up; almost all the Mss. spell like this; Barnett prefers gres; the stress on a in Sanskrit it seems has brought about the metathesis and the preservation of the length of the syllable &t=k. In gealter, I have not kept a long.
