Book Title: Atonements In Ancient Ritual Of Jaina Monks
Author(s): Collete Caillat
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ : 111 desire or repugnance, like an automaton. Thus he will not be submitted either to the "heavy" procedure, nor even to the "light" procedure, but for the sake of form-to the "lightest possible" procedure (ahalahusae... vavahare): "solely that he might be pure" (suddhi-mātra-nimittam), “in conformity with the teachings of the sutra (sūtropadişṭatvāt, Ț IV 33 a 13-b 5; referring to Vav 2, 9 ff.). The procedure consists in the prohibition of all vikṛtis for five days (nirvikṛtika IV, 25 b). It can be seen that the provisions - certainly ancient-of the Jaina canon incontestably linked the notions of sin, intention, freedom and responsibility (cf. for Buddhism, Pettazzoni, La confessione dei peccati, I, p. 322; 332). The commentators have never denied this doctrine1 which conforms moreover to the ways and customs of the world, as they are careful to emphasise (loke tatha darsanataḥ) 1 Compare Pravacanasāra, 3, 17: payadassa n'atthi bandho himsa-metteṇa samidassa, "there is no bondage for him, who is mindful in the items of carefulness, by mere (physical) harm.". (transl. A. N. Upadhye, p. 407; with moreover, ib. n. 2, reference to Tattvärtha 7, 13). 14. C

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