Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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THE RELIGIOUS' PRAYAŚCITTAS : 115
The mūla is the eighth and the last atonement that can be prescribed for the Jaina monk living normally in a gana: rather, the ācārya is the only one who is liable to this prāyaścitta (supra).
His seniority is completely suppressed. He must begin his religious life afresh, from the vows onwards. But he is not made to observe any tapas.143
On the other hand, a list of those who should be prescribed the müla is given in VavBh 1, 320 :
tav'atiya-m-asaddahae tava-balje c'eva hoi pariyāge dubbala appariņāme atthira abahussue mülar.
They are : those who need more than the sixth (or seventh) expiation; who are not confident in the purificatory power of the sixth; or who bear it too easily; etc.; and those who having incurred the ninth or the tenth are not able to perform them succeedingly.144 On the whole, then, müla would appear to be used rather like a substitute : for the ninth and tenth atonements, from which the sāpeksas are exempted; for the sixth and seventh when these would be too light; for the sixth if, on the contrary, it exceeds the strength and the maturity of the penitent.
THE NINTH AND TENTH ATONEMENTS (anavatthaya, anavasthayā; päranciya, pārāncita). The ninth atonement is the anavatthayā (=anavasthayā; for añavatthavayā), "destitution". The tenth is known as the "last" in the commentaries : if it had a specific name, it did not come down to us; we only read of the penitent being paranciya (pārāncita), "excluded”.
These expiations are prescribed exclusively to the niravekkha religious (the jiņakappiya, parihariya, ahālandiya), who have already proved that they are fit to live in solitude.
Destitution is incurred by those who have robbed or cheated Jaina or non-Jaina religious people; or who have given a slap in the face (K 4,3 and Bh ad loc.). Exclusion is proclaimed against those who nourish bad feelings or thoughts, or are lazy, or addicted to homosexuality (K 4, 2); according to Thān, to those who (1) break a kula (2) or a gana, (3) who favour violence, (4) because of whose defects violence progresses, or the right Doctrine can be obliterated, (5) or those who are inquisitive and ask unbecoming questions (300 a). Thus, the päranciya
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143 Cf. the commentary ad K 4, 2–3. 144 Cf. Ţ III 11 a - b.