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S. B. DEO
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The vaïramajjhā was quite the reverse of the previous one. In this, 15
the monk took fifteen morsels on the first day of the dark fortnight and went on decreasing the number so that he took only one
horsel on the new moon day. Javamajjhā
Then taking the same quantity on the next day, he increased it, and ate fifteen morsels on the full-moon day. It was, therefore, like the following figure: 202
Another way of practising these pratimās i
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was the carrying out of fasts of various magnitudes in a particular period. According to this method the following pratimās were carried
out in the following way: 293 Vaïramajjhā
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Savvaöbhaddā:
(a) Khuddiyā-Fasting: 1st to 5th meal complete in: 75 days.
1 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 1 2 5 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 1 4 5 1 2 3
Arrangement of fasts.
(b) Mahalliyā—1st to 7th meal : 96 days.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 5 6 7 1 2 3 4
Arrangement of fasts.
292. Than. comm. p. 65b.
293. Ibid., pp. 293ab.
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