Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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KALPA SÚTRA.
5. The fifth Kalpa is Kritikarma. It consists of two parts ; first, the rising and standing upright; and next, the performing of the twelve forms of salutation. This was incumbent upon all the Tirthankars, as well as on other sages, and is to be performed by all to all mutually in the order of their initiation—the newly initiated sage is to be saluted with religious reverence, even by those who have been the longest time initiated; for it is religion that gives man pre-eminence*
6. The sixth is the Vrīta Kalpa. Vrīta here means the highest kind of religious observances.
These, in reference to the twenty-two Jina Sages, are four, since they are permitted to marry. But from the absence of all defect in wisdom, to the first and last Jina Sages they are fivet.
7. The seventh is called the Jyeshtha Kalpa. Here Jyeshtha means the chief or initiatory rite, and it is to this, as the commencement of a series of observances, that the Institute applies. The performance of the initiatory rite by the first and last Jinas, is to be counted from the time they
* qaytara iz So are the words which I translate as above; the last word in another copy is omitted, and the meaning seems simply to be, that all sages are rendered equal by the possession of the religious character.
† These four principal virtues are the following:-Dána, Síla, Japa, Bhara. See Part I., Book I., chap. S.