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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
The Five Minor-scale Vows :
(1) Not being in a position to refrain from all violencewhether undertaken through manas or through speech or through body-directed against any thing, big or small, to refrain from all violence that goes beyond the limit set for oneself by oneself keeping in view the needs of one's life as a householder—that is the minor-scale vow of non-violence.
(2-5) Likewise, to refrain from all untruthfulness, all theft, all incontinence, all attachment-for-possessions that goes beyond the limit set for oneself by oneself keeping in view one's specific conditions of life—these are respectively the minor-scale vows of truthfulness, non-theft, continence, non-attachment.
The Three Gunavratas :
(6) In conformity to one's capacity to refrain from the worldly enjoyment, to fix a limit in all the directions east, west, etc. and not to undertake any un-virtuous act whatsoever beyond this limit—that is called digvirati-vrata.
(7) Even when a limit has been fixed in a particular direction to impose from time to time a further limit within this limit and not to undertake any un-virtuous act whatsoever beyond the inner limit thus imposed—that is called deśavirati-vrata.
(8) Making an exception of all un-virtuous act that might be necessary for the fulfilment of some worldly need of one's own to refrain from all un-virtuous act whatsoever-that is to say, to refrain from all unvirtuous act that serves no purpose—that is anarthadandavirati-vrata.
The Four Śikṣāvratas :
(9) Making a mental fixation of time—that is, for a fixed period of time to refrain from all un-virtuous act whatsoever and to remain engaged in a virtuous act—that is sāmāyika-vrata.
(10) On the 8th, 14th or full-moon date of the lunar month—or on any other date—to keep fast, to refrain from bodily decoration, to keep awake during night time engaged in virtuous
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