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Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra आसमयमुक्ति मुक्तं पञ्चाघानामशेषभावेन । सर्वत्र च सामयिकाः सामयिकं नाम शंसन्ति ॥९७ ॥
सामान्यार्थ - आगम के ज्ञाता गणधरदेवादिक सब जगह - मर्यादा के भीतर
और बाहर - सम्पूर्ण रूप से (मन, वचन, काय और कृत, कारित, अनुमोदना से) पाँचों पापों का किसी निश्चित समय तक त्याग करने को सामयिक नाम का शिक्षाव्रत कहते हैं। The Most Learned ascetics have expounded that refraining completely (by way of doing by oneself, causing to be done, and approval when done by others, through the three kinds of activity - of body, speech, and thought) from commission of the five demerits (pāpa), at all places (within as well as outside the limits set under the vow of abstaining from activity with regard to region - deśāvakāśikavrata) for a fixed time period, is called the vow of periodic concentration (sāmayika, also sāmāyika), a limb of instructional vows-śikṣāvrata.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Sarvārthasiddhi:
The preposition ‘sam’means one state of being. For instance, ghee becomes one with the thing mixed. Similarly oil also. To become one is samaya. That, which has oneness as its object, is sāmāyikam. One attains the great vows when one practises sāmāyika (concentration) at a particular place and time, since one is free from minute and gross injury and so on. It is argued that it would be perfect restraint and discipline (samyama). But it is untenable, as there is the presence of karmas or passions which arrest complete restraint. In that case these should not be called great vows. No. These are called great vows figuratively...
Jain, S.A. (1960), “Reality”, p. 203.
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