Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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is blamed for his dispositions rather than for definite offences.145 Therefore, it seems that he should be excluded once for all. However the Vavahāra teaches that he can be taken back into the gana and rehabilitated, just as the anavatthappa (2, 21 and 23; 19 and 22). The rehabilitation is operated by the gaṇāvaccheiya, after due consideration of the penitent's behaviour, and of the gana's wishes. The anavatthaya performs tava after his reordination; the päranciya before it.146 The commentaries of Vav 2, 18-23 define the status of both these penitents together.147
They are excluded from the "circle” or ground where their gana is established: yāvad anavasthāpyam părancitam vă vahati tävad bahiḥ kşetrād avatişthate.148 Consequently,--and because he sinned, he is not a real ascetic, but only an apparent one, saṁyata-rūpin.149 Moreover, the paranciya must leave the religious paraphernalia. 150 On the other hand, neither he nor the anavatthappa should behave like laymen.151 When begging, they observe restrictions quite similar to those of the jinakappiya.152 Though they are established outside the gana, they receive the daily visit of the ayariya, who enquires after their health, helps them in their study, and if necessary comforts them.153 If he is hindered, he sends them a delegate, either the uvajjhāya, or any giyattha : these should at once inform the penitent of the reasons why they have been asked to come; then they all keep silent, performing the superior's orders.154 If, notwithstanding these measures, the anavatthaya or päranciya grow exhausted, they are taken care of by the ganavaccheiya or by the āyariya (cf. Vav 2, 7–8).
It will have been noted that in many respects, the two last atonements are cognate to the parihära.
When the time for the religious's readmission into the gana has come, the penitents approach the teacher as if they were lay believers
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145 Cf. Doctrine 162. 146 Commentaries of K 4, 2-3; Thān. 147 VavȚ IV 52 a -58 a. 148 Ibid., 53 b 4; cf. 26 a 9. 149 Cf. VavȚ IV 56 a 1 ff.; cf. Bh 2, 249 f. 150 Thāns 300 b. 151 VavȚ IV 53 b 5. 152 Ibid., 53 b 6. 153 VavBh 2, 239 f. 154 VavȚ IV 54 b; cf. supra : the anuparihārī.