Book Title: Jain Penance
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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________________ JAINA PENANOE monly committed and slight, e.g, walking, eating, etc; only ment the hāyotsarga penance. The same penance is indicated there an apamrista (untouchable or impure) body is touched, itching is relieved, or bodily limbs stretched or contracted, or where bodily products, (excrement, salıva, phlegm and the like) are discharged in a manner contrary to the proper mode. Kāyotsarga is also the proper expiation for such acts as pulling threads or stram to pieces, causing slight agitation, the employment of bands in collecting books, mentally resolving to complete an upkarana (an accessory, eg, a book or feather whisk) in a certain number of days : If a bodily limb rub against clay, hard seeds, green grass or tarasa (insect) life, one layotsarga is the penance therefor." If a saint fail to observe the hāyotsa, ga penance at the proper time he incurs the penalty of an upavāsa (fast), but not of chheda" O-TAPA Tapa generally means asceticism, but in connection with penance it signifies fasting One and thirty combinations are formed with the five types of fasting penances, namels, purit 'S' 28 : S' 29 'S' 30 *S' 31. 'S' 210.

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