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Exposition of Pratikramana Stotras
duties prescribed in Jaina texts, which a householder traditionally performs in morning and evening everyday. These necessary duties (ävashyaka) are: 1.Sämäyika-practice of meditation. 2. Chaturvimshati Stava-praise of 24 Tirthankaras. 3. Vandanapaying respect to monks. 4. Pratikramana-Atonement by recitation of the set form of prayers for confession of faults committed in the past. 5. Käyotsarga-the rite of abandonment of the body for limited time. And 6. Pratyäkhyäna-Renouncement by recitation of the set form of prayers for fending of future faults, generally expressed in the form of dietetic restrictions like fasting etc. Rushabhdeva invented the fire, method of warfare, divided the society into different groups on the basis of their profession and various arts.
10. Karemi Bhante Sutra
Pachchkkhäna Sutra
Object: To achieve natural state of asceticism
Sutra and Meaning: કરેમિ ભંતે! સામાઈય, સાવજે જોગ પચ્ચકખામિ, જાવ નિયમ પજજુવાસામિ, દુવિહં તિવિહોણ, મણણ વાયાએ કાણ, ન કરેમિ, ન કારવેમિ, તસ્સ ભતે. પડિક્રમામિ, નિંદામિ, ગરિહામિ, અપ્રાણ વોસિરામિ. karemi bhante! sämäiyam, sävajjam jogam pachchakkhämi; jäva niyamam pajjuväsämi, duviham tivihenam, manenam, väyäe, käenam, na karemi, na käravemi, tassa bhante! padikkamämi, nindami garihämi, appänam vosirämi. Oh lord! I am now going to perform meditation (sämäyika) and give up all harmful activities (pratyäkhyäna). For as long as I am in meditation, I shall not commit any harmful activities by mind, speech or body or get them done by others; and, I confess, reprehend and repent for the sins committed in past, and I cast
