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duty of departure from the place, for a longer time or even permait would depend on his health and nently at a particular place under capacity to move. He does not such circumstance.188 incur any blame if he has to stay
III
PARIHĀRAVIŚUDDHIKA OR SUDDHAPARIHĀRIKA
or Purificatory Cooperative Course
I INTRODUCTORY
The order of treatment of Victor's Course as given in the Brhatkalpa Bhāsya, 189 and followed by us in our above description, is applicable to the Purificatory Coopera- tive Course (pariharaviśuddhika) as well as the Time-bound Course (yathālandaka). We should therefore note here only the points of departure from the Victor's Course. 190
II Extension of the Rules of Victor's Course and their Exceptions.
(1) Place and Time of Practice : The practice of the Purificatory Cooperative Course is possible only in the reign of the first and the last tirtharkaras, who are born in the last part of the third and the fourth periods of the descending time. cycle.
As regards the regions of such practitioners, it is possible in the ten regions of Bharata and Airāvata.
(2) Period of Floruit : In the reign of Rşabha, the first tirthan- kara, it flourishes for one hundred thousand pūrvas 191 only of the third period, while it lasts for several scores of years in the reign of the
last tirtharkara.192 But the maximum duration of the practice of the Course by the practitioner is one púrva-koți less 29 years, because his longevity is one pūrva-koți and he cannot adopt the practice before he cannot adopt the practice is 29. Similarly, a disciple initiated by such practitioner will also be able to practise the Course for the same number of years. Thus the total length would come to two pārva-koțis less fifty-eight years.
In the same way, in the reign of the last tirtharkara, the maximum duration of the practice of this penance by a particular aspirant can be 100- 29=71 years. This is calculated on the presumption that the practitioner lives for full 100 years, which is the maximum length of life in the period under reference. The total length in this case would be 71+71=142 years.
The reason of the discontinuance of this Course beyond the second generation of the tirtharikara is that only the jina himself or the disciple initiated by the jina can initiate an aspirant into the practice of this Course. A disciple's disciple. (sthāpita - sthāpaka) cannot do so.193
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