Jain Penance

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

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be correct then the commentary referred to would be deemed to have been composed in the 10th century A.D., so that the original work must be at least about a thousand years old.
The book has been translated into Hindi by Sjt Panna Lalji Son who was at one time the chief Pandit of the Gopal Siddhanta Vidyalaya, Morena (Gwalior State) The present work is chiefly based on this Hindi translation I am, however, giving the Sanskrit text in Part III.
The original work is composed in poetry which seems to have been much in vogue at the time of its composition, and which is, no doubt responsible for the lack of precision which is found to obscure the interpretation of some of the slokas (couplets) The Hindi translation is not critical However, the number of the verses that actually resist elucidation is very very small An endeavour has been made here to get at the true teaching underlying the various obscure texts, and I have consulted several saints and learned men on the subject to ascertain the true reading
It has however not been found necessary to enter into an elaborate discussion of these obscure points; I am merely content to give what seems to me to be the true interpretation of the various texts A part of the aforesaid element of confusion has no doubt, also arisen from the jumbling together of the diverse texts in an indiscriminate manner, which might be due to careless copying or some other similar cause.
The "Prayaschitta Sumuchchaya" consists of two