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fåre of penance) is said to have burnt out all the 8 kinds of karmas (174:9). Tapisu (151.25) is used once in the sense of : to imatiate the body. Tapa (127.24-25) is once defimod as the absence of extemal and internal parigraha (possessions). Lastly in these stories we come across a very important concept of tapa viz., dvadaśavidhamappa tapa (1.9, 11.23). The twelve- fold code of conduct for the lạity (comprising 5 Anuatas, 3 Gunavratas and 4 Śikṣāvratas) is referred here as tapa and not as yoga.
The term yoga has scarcely been used in these stories in the sense of : spiritual or religious exertion for salvation of liberation. However, the following technical terms in Jaina yoga are worthy of note : kasāya-yoga (24.8), yoga-nirodha (155.20), ayogi (155.21) and jogabhakti (156.8.161.2). The following Yogic practices, some of them expressed in local tone, appear to have been current in these days : pralimayoga (74,25 etc.) - standing like a statue; atapasthitayoga (114.5) - standing in the sun : ckasthitayoga (160.13-14) - standing in the same place until death; Tatripratimā (31.23 etc.) - standing in (kāyotsarga) the whole night; suryapratimā (152.15 etc.) - standing (in kāyotsarga) the whole day; kalncle nil (114.6, 160.14) - to stand (in kayotsarga) on the rock. Kayotsarga (49.18 etc.) abandoning the body, is found used several times. Jogugo! (27.24, 28.1, 48.7) - to enter Yoga, is a peculiar local vocable used in the sense of : to enter a mystic trance. In the similar context Harisena 4 used Yogagrahana (126.237) accepting yoga.
Samadhi (117.29) - the supreme state of dhyāna is occasionally found to have been used in the sense of the last stage of sukla-dhyāna. But samadhi-marana (45.1 etc.) invariably stands for bhakta-pratyakhyāna or prayeopagamana marana.
Upavāsa (64.10) - fasting was supposed to be a kind of tapa (penance). Various kinds of fasts like astopavāsa (107.6). paksopavāsa (45.6), māsopavāsa (46.1) diksopavāsa (68.24), etc. were observed by monks and laymen as suited to them. Nompi
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