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MODERN JAINISM.
The fifth is Dipu Pujā (24 you, or waving a lamp
before the shrine. As a part of this rite Dipa Puja':
38. the five-fold Afrati may be waved, or the single Mangaladipa alone.
In the next, the Akşuta Pujā (3489 yom), rice is offered. The worshipper brings from his or her) home some rice in a
little bag generally elaborately embroiAksata ruja dered. This he arranges either on the alms chest (Bhandāra) or on a stool in a particular form, thus :
The Svastika sign (c) represents the Gati* in which one may be born,
(a) - either as man or beast, in heaven or in hell. The three little heaps (6) (6) @ represent the Three Jewels t of Right Knowledge, Right Faith and Right Conduct, by which one attains to Moksu, which is represented by the half moon sign (a). The rice thus arranged is left until some other worshipper requires the space for his Aksata, when it is swept into the alms chest. At the end of a month all the rice in the chest is sold in the bazaar for the temple expenses, when, however, Jaina are careful not to buy it. Oecasionally worshippers drop pice into the alms chest through the same aperture as that through which the rice is swept.
The seventh Pujā consists of offering Nairedya (194) Naivedya. or sweet meats. The eighth, Phala Pujā (for you), is the offering of
fruit and nuts of all kinds : almonds, Phala Puja'.
oranges, limes, bananas, etc. The pujāri
* See p. 59.
+ See p. 84.
