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S. B. DEO Other items like 'ālocanā,"388 'pratikramana',389 and meditation and the rules regarding these were the same. Only a few points regarding 'ālocana' and 'kāyotsarga' may be noted below:
Alocanā' was done in the following cases besides on the routine occasions :
(1) practising penance without asking the ācārya, (2) taking requisites like books or brooms belonging to others, (3) condemning others in their absence, (4) not carrying out the orders of the ācārya, (5) going out without asking the ācārya, (6) leaving the other sangha without telling the members of that
sangha, and rejoining one's own, (7) forgetting to do the āvaśyakas (?). 'Pratikramana' pertained to the following faults:
(1) touching the ācārya by hand or foot, (2) violation of the 'vratas,' 'samitis' and 'guptis,' (3) for quarrels and acts of cruelty, (4) transgressions pertaining to study and service, (5) getting passionate on the begging round,
(6) troubling others. 'Kāyotsarga' was done on the following occasions :
(1) for improper 'ālocanā, (2) at the fall of worms, (3) transgressions pertaining to flies, mosquitoes (i.e. living insects), (4) walking over wet ground or over grass or mud, (5) making use of the rule of crossing knee-deep water for purposes
other than those allowed by Law, (6) crossing the river in a boat, (7) letting the book or an image fall down, (8) inflicting injury on immobile beings,
(9) easing nature on an unscanned region.
Besides these there were other occasions which required 'kāyotsarga' to be done.
388. Ibid. 7, 38ff; its faults: 40-44; time: 39. 389. Ibid. comm. pp. 503-04.
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