Religious Prayascittas according to old Jaina Ritual

Author(s): Collete Caillat
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THE RELIGIOUS' PRĀYAŚCITTAS : 111
necessitated by the second offence are maintained. The total is six months six days.119
(2) the new fault occurs at the end of five months 24 days: the remaining six days are suppressed; the second group of six months is maintained. Thus, the total is twelve months less six days.120
The two arrangements that are characteristic of the parihāra are apparently signified by the two formulae thavanijjam thavaittă and karanijjan veyāvadiyaṁ. Other observances (the "service", study, meditation, fasts) were performed at the same time, but they are not specific
The parihara is summed up thus by Malayagiri : 121 the monk first recollects. The teacher, in front of the whole gana, proclaims the rank of the two nigganthas who will assist him. He publicly states which arrangements are to be taken (sthapanīyam..sthāpayitva, VavȚIII 26 a 1). Lastly, the commentaries record which "services" the penitent will receive from his tutor and from an aid (vaiyāvștyan karaṇīyam, ibid. 2).
After the preliminary examination of the niggantha by the guru, after the kāyotsarga, and if the astrological conditions are auspicious, the parihāra begins.122 Then the teacher says to the religious :
kappatthito aham te, anuparihārī ya esa te gito,123
"For you, I stand in the Rule..", meaning that, unlike the other religious, he is not to be avoided by the penitent.
Though the formula thavanijjam thavaittä has sometimes been misunderstood, there is little doubt that it refers to the arrangements that morally exclude the monk from the society of his companions. 124 The guru sums them up at the beginning of the observance. He asks the other monks not to disturb the penitent who, on the other hand, will not speak to any of them either :
esa tavam padivajjai, na kim ci alavati mā ya alavaha,125
119 Ibid., 7 a. 120 Ibid., 7 b. 121 Ibid., 25 b ff. 122 VavBh 1, 350 = NisBh 6 584; VavBh 1, 360; 361a = Nisbh 6 593 a. 123 VavBh 362 a = NisBh 6 594 a. 124 Cf. my discussion in Les Expiations 183 f. and in Drei Chedasūtras,
ad 1, 17. 125 VavBh 1, 363 a = Nis Bh 6 595 a.