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Penance - • Anasanaavamaudarvavrttiparisarikhyānarasaparityā
gavivikttasavvāsanakāvakleśä bāhyami tapaha || 19 || Pravascitavinayavaivāvrttyasvādhyaya vyutsarga
dhvanānuttarani || 2011 The six types of external penance are -- fasting, reduced eating,
restricted desires for eatables, giving up delicacies, lone residence and physical mortification. Repentance, humility, service, scriptural-studies, renunciation and meditation are the six forms of internal penance. (19-20)
• Navacaturdaśapancadvibhedani vathākramami
prāgdhyânāt ||21|| The five types of internal penances prior to Dhyana have,
respectively, nine, four, ten, five and two sub-types. (21)
Alocanăpratikramanatadubhayavivekavyutsargatapa Śchedaparihāropasthāpanāni || 22 | Jñanadarśanacáritropacārah || 23 || Acaryopādhyāyatapasviśaiksakaglānaganakula
sarighasādhusa manojñāna mi || 24 ||| Criticism, retraction, these two together, discretion, renunciation,
penance, reduction (in seniority), isolation and reordination are the nine types of expiations. To remain engaged in acquisition of (Right) knowledge, right-conation or inclination, right-conduct and right formal behaviour with the lay people are the four types of practices of right conduct. To serve the Master, the scriptural teacher, the austere, the studious, the invalids, the congregation, the monastic group, the order, the ordained and the equals in knowledge and righteousness are the ten types of services. (22-24)
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