Jain Journal 1973 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 81

APRIL, 1973
tised penance for a lac of years. Having much penance by means of the twenty sthānas devotion to the Arhats, et cetera, he acquired the body-making karma of a Tirthakrit, which is very difficult to acquire. Having practised stainless asceticism even from the beginning, at the end of his life, he made a propitiatory declaration : 217-268
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'Whatever transgression I have committed against the promulgated eight-fold practices of knowledge--time, respect, et cetera, that I censure in three ways. Whatever transgression I have committed against the promulgated eight-fold practices of right-belief-freedom from doubt, et cetera, that I reject in three ways. Whatever injury I have done to living creatures, fine or coarse, from delusion or greed, that I reject in three ways. Whatever I spoke with ridicule, fear, greed, anger, et cetera, all that I censure and do penance for. Whatever property belonging to another ungiven, little or much, was taken by me in any place from love or hate, all that I reject. Whatever union, animal, human, or divine was made by wretched me, that I reject three-fold in three ways. Whatever wealth-money, grain, cattle, et cetera was acquired by me variously from the fault of greed, I reject in three ways. Whatever attachment (there was) to son, wife, friend, brother, grain, money, house and other things, all that I reject. Whatever food of four kinds, I overcome by the senses, enjoyed during the night, that I censure in three ways. Anger, conceit, deceit, greed, love, hate, quarreling, back-biting, criticizing others slander and watever transgression in the sphere of the principles of good conduct, that I renounce completely in three ways. Whatever transgression against penance-outer and inner, that I censure three-fold in three ways. Whatever exertion in religious practices I concealed and transgression against the practices of exertion that I censure in three ways.
'Whoever was struck or harshly addressed by me; anyone from whom I took anything; anyone to whom I did any injury,, may they all pardon me. Friend or foe whoever, my own people or hostile people, may they all pardon me everything. I am the same toward all. Whatever animals in their status as animals; whatever hell-inhabitants in their status as hell-inhabitants; whatever gods in their status as gods; whatever humans in their status as humans have been caused pain by me, may they all pardon me. I pardon them. Indeed there is friendliness toward all on my part.
'Life, youth, wealth, beauty, association with friends, all this is as fleeting as ocean-waves stirred by the wind. There is no other dharma except the dharma taught by the Jina that is a refuge for creatures in