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12. Twelvth Pratima-During this pratima, the sadhu should practise a fasting of 4 days' duration, and he should stay for one night, in religious meditation without winking his eyes on an elevated place on a river-bank.
Skandaka Apagara, then, practised Guna Ratna Samvatsara Vrata for 16 months with 73 break-fasts, within a total of 480 days.
Guna Ratna Samvatsara Tapa is practised as follows:-The tapa is of sixteen (16) months' duration. During the first month the sādhu should observe one days' fasting on alternate days. During the second month, he should observe two days' fasting; in the third month, three days' fasting, till the sixteenth month with a fasting of sixteen days each.
Hence, the number of fastings and of break-fast for each month is as follows :
-इच्छामिण भंते ! तुम्भे हिं अन्भणुष्णाए समाणे मासियं मिक्खुपडिम स्वसंपज्जित्ता ण विहरित्त।। अहामुहं देवाणुप्पिया ! मा पडिवंध। तर ण से खंदए अणगारे समनेणं मवया महावीरेण अन्मणुष्णाए समाज हट्ट जाव नमंसित्ता मासियं मिक्खुएदिमं उपसंपज्जित्ता ण विइरइ, सए ण से खंदए अणगारे मासियभिक्खुपडिमं अहामुत्त अहाकप्पं अहामग्गं अहाततं अहासम्मं कारण फासेति णालेति सोभेति तीरेति पूरेति किटोति अणुपाठेइ आणाए आराहेइ संमं कारण फासित्ता जाच राहेत्ता जेणेष समणे भगवं महावीरे देणेव उवागच्छइ २ समण भगवंजाव नमंसित्ता एवं पयासी-इच्छामि ण भंते ? तुम्भे अन्मणुण्णाए समाणे दोगासिय भिक्खुपडिमं उवसंपजित्ता णं विहरित्तए, अहामुहं देवाणुप्पिया! मा परिबंध, तं चेव तगासियं चाउम्मासियं पंचछसत्तमासियं पढमं सत्चराइदियं दोच्चं सत्तराईदियं तच्च सत्तरातिदियं अहोरातिदिय एगरातिदियं तए ण से खंदए अणगारे एगराइंदियं भिक्खुपडिमं अहामुत्त जाव आराहेत्ता
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