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Third case: the pupils of the superior (who are immatyre) show their attachment to their teacher and threaten to expel whoever: gproses hisis immediate reinstatement (para-mocapana, cf. Bh 2, 258 f.).
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for reinstatement, 'Although unfaithful, they are faithfül. No matter what the personal wishes of the two teachers concerned are, the elder does what the company desires (teşuı tatha anicchatsu api gana.. priti-kārakairi mahadbhiḥ sthaviraih...teşām dvayánām api gana-sadhūnām iccha Þīryalė; IY, 5810 î; cf: Bh' 2,262).
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It will be seen that the opinion of the company easily prevails even when its members are unqualified. Care is taken not to thwart them.
Among the Svetambaras, demotion (and exclusion) were characterised by a relaxation of the bonds which normally unite the religious and the community. The status of penitent is not exactly that of a layman. This
is what is conveyed by the leaving, off or the wearing of the insignia D: 210 proper to either of these conditions, and especially by the installation
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It is the same banishment that the Digambaras signify in sometimes calling the ninth atonement parihāra “isolation”. After it comes belief sifaith? "saddahanāí (Mülácará 5, 165), sraddhana (Ašādbara, Anagaradha mampla 7;"56). The information about the ninth given by the Malacăra on one hand and the Anagaradhärmāmsia on the other does not agree on detail. Nivethless, it allows us to get an idea of the general provisions, Without corroborating in detail the measures prescribed by the Svētāmbaras, they evidently fëst upon the same fundamental principles. The Mülacarà teaches ihat two types of parihara exist - according to whether the peniteni remains attached to bis company or not : api ca*"pariharo dvi-prakāraḥ gana-piatibaddho pratibaddho vā.1 Āśádbara ádmits this double" possibility and relates it to the penance which be calls (an)upasthāna (that is,-sthapana). Moreover, he adds to this “demotion' the penance of the parancika (sic).
It is the union of this last, with the one before, which, according to him, 1. Compare the two categories of ghalandiya (supra 53),
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