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diction or attachment of the mind, speech, and body to any act; Kriyás, or acts, of which twenty-six varieties are specified as those performed with any part of the body, or with the instrumentality of a weapon, or the like--- those prompted by feelings of hate or wrath - those which are inceptive, progressive, or conclusive — those performed by oneself, or through another creature -- those which are suggested by impiety, or unbelief in the doctrine of the Tirthankaras.
VI. The sixth Tattwa is termed Samvara, and is that by which acts are collected or impeded. There are fifty-seven varieties classed under six heads.
1. Samiti, keeping the attention properly alive, so as to see immediately if an insect is in the way, to refrain from uttering what should not be said, to distinguish any of the forty-two defects in food given as alms, taking or relinquishing any thing indifferently, and avoiding or abandoning unfit things.
2. Gupti, secrecy, or reserve of three kinds, or in mind, speech and person.
3. Parishahú, endurance or patience, as when a person has taken a vow of abstemiousness he must bear liunger and thirst; so he must endure heat and cold, when he practices the immoveable posture of Jain abstraction; if he is disappointed in what he has laboured or begged for, he must not murmur; and if he is reviled or even beaten, he must patiently submit.
4. Yatidharma, the duties of an ascetic; these are ten in number: patience, gentleness, integrity, and
