Jain Penance

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

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parts, the book proper and a chülıkā or supplement. The rerses of the two parts are separately numbered in the original In the references I have adhered to the dumbering of the author, and indioated the book proper by merely its bloka number (thus $ 101, § 154, eto), and the Chūlıka by the abbreviation Oh (thus Oh. 101, Oh 169 and 80 forth)
A knowledge of the rules apploable to the householder aod the saint 18 presupposed in the reader if he will appreoiute the merit of the penanoes presoribed and of the fine distinotions on which they are grounded Brief explanatory notes have born given in some places to eluodate difficult and obscure points, but it is not possible to inoorporate the whole of the Jaina Charitra Code (rules relating to disciplinary conduot) in the prosent work
In the Appendix I have given the penances provided for the householders' transgressions in the" Prayasohitta Grantha" who is inoluded in the "Prayusohitta Sangraha," published by the Maniokchand Digombara Jaipa Grantha Male Samiti of Bombas This book professes to be from the pan of the great Bhattakalankadera whose name is a household word in the Jana community But, as the learned secretary of the MDJ G. Sumiti obseryes, it does not appeal to one's inind as an authoritative work, and certainly it could not bare been coinposed by suoh a profound Jalba sobolar as Akulankadova whoso anthority it seeks to olam for itself Its composition would seem to have been inluonced by the spirit of the latter-day commercialized Hinduism, as is evident from such ponanoes as tho gift of hine,