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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
makes them to respond to a any fine and delicate vibration that might
be set up in the outside. (2) Unodori-Avoidance of full meals. It
adds to the agility of the jiva. Full meals bring on slumber and laziness and are the causes of dyspepsia which is very difficult
to get rid of. (3) Vritti sankhepa-Dietetic restrictions
which can be observed in different ways from the view-points of dravya, kshettra, låla and swa. bhava. As for instance, I am in the habit of taking meals consisting of nine or ten kinds of eatables and to observe the vow of vritti sunkhepa from the stand-point of dravya, I will have to reduce the number of the eatables, say, to five kinds making up the meal would take. Then again I may put in further restriction to the obtaining of the meal from certain quarter from the view-point of kshettra. Thirdly, I may put still further restriction
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