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back after the victory the important festival of Jains, i.e. samvatsarī came and he performed yearly pratikramaņa,confessed with 84 lakhs of beings, listening to this King Candapradyotha laughed at him. King, Udai knew the essence of pratikramaṇa, he at once freed the King, forgot the hatred and open-heartedly asked forgiveness.23 It is likely that the saint, under the constraint of subtle passions may deviate from the minutest ethical conduct, such faults of commission and omission may not accumulate so as to devour the spirit of asceticism, however the saint ought to purify them daily without any procrastination and deceit by resorting to self-criticism (nindā), to censuring his faults in presence of the Guru (garhā) and lastly to confess by revealing his committed transgression to the Guru (ālocanā).24
We find lots of illustrations in canonical literature who confessed for the five asravas (inflow of karmas). Acārya Aṣāḍhabhūti did confession of mithyātva, Muni Rathanemi 26and Muni Megha did confession of vowlessness,27 Goutama Svāmī confessed for his remissness before the Ananda Shravaka for negating the clairvoyance knowledge 28by asking forgiveness. The Candakausika Serpent confessed for his anger before Mahāvīra29, Bahubali, son of First conqueror Rṣabha confessed for his pride before Sadhvi Brahmi and Sundari.30 Malli Kumārī did not confess for censor, so she became women although she bound the karma of tirthankara.31 Kapila confessed for his greed and in the process of introspection, he attained the kevala-jñāna.32 The Prasannachandra Rajarshi merely by thinking bound the lifespan of Hell, but at once confessed for his inauspicious actions and involved himself in auspicious action, karma began to shed off and ultimately he attained the omniscience.33 Even the Arjuna Malakar who killed 1144 persons and acquired demerits but later on he became a monk and tolerated kicks of laities, heard the abuse words calmly as a repentance, in this way by bearing all the hardships, he destroyed all the karmas through the (pratikramaņa) confession of the past deeds. On the other hand, who does not confess for their past demerits or inauspicious actions like the soul of King Śṛeņika, Gajasukumāla, Khandaka Muni, experienced the fruition of their bound karmas in manifold way.3
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