Atonements In Ancient Ritual Of Jaina Monks

Author(s): Collete Caillat
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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or bhikṣu who has already carried out a prāyaścitla (i. e. probably a parihāra infra 119), or who corrects himself at the slightest remonstrance.
A further distinction is made between postulants" who satisfactorily "digest”, assimilate, the teaching and regulations (parināmaka), and those who do not assimilate" them (aparināmaka) (through lack of spiritual maturity), and who consequently will be afraid of not being totally purified when the atonement actually imposed is inferior to that thcoretically deserved. Finally, those who carry the "assimilation' too far and fail to understand the eventual meekness of the verdict, become prone to exessive indulgence (ati pariņāmaka) towards themselves. When the master notifies a prāyaścitta he must take into consideration the capacity of the subject for understading its full significance, and modify the terms accordingly.2
The distinctions which we have just listed are summed up in the following table:
niravekkha
sāvekklia
they are gaccha-niggaya
(cf. the superiors, who are gaccha-vāsi )
3: jinakappiya
pārihāriya ahālandiya
3: āyariya
uvajjhāya blilckhu
necessarily kayakarana
either kayakarana
or akayakarana
either thira
or a(t)thira
or agīyattha
either giyattha
=kadajogi ==yasaha
= miga
is normally
sometimes pariņāmaka sometimes apariņāmaka sometimes atipariņāmaka
pariņāmaka
is vikovida
.
.
sometimes vikovida sometimes akovida
1. gito vikovido klalu kaya-pacchitto siya agito vi (Vay Bh 1, 280a);
sito gitārthah khalu krta-prāyascitto vikovidan, yo'py ukto yathā cārya yadidam bhayah sevişyase, tatah chedam malam vā dāsyāmah>, so 'pi vikovidah. tad-viparīto 'gītārthah. yaś ca prathamalayā prāyaścittam pratipad yate, ya's côkto 'pi tathā na samyak
parinamayati, sa syād bhaved akovidah (Vay Ţ II 97 6 5 ff.). 2. Cr. Vav T II 58 b 6 f.: parināmo yaduktartha-parinamanan yasya sa, tathā īstām agitar
thah...atiparināma) ativyāpt yā pariņāmo yatlókta-svarapo yasyásāy atiparināmah.. On the consequences of a false interpretation of the prūyascitta, ibid., 59 a.b.