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repentance (covering) the three activities (of mind, speech and body), I salute with reverence the twenty-four jinas."49
5. Fifth avaśyaka: kāyotsarga
The kāyotsarga-pratijña-sutra: sūtra containing the promise of
kayotsarga
"For the uplift [of the atman), as a form of reparation, for purification, to avoid the thorns (the three sorts of tarnish, namely, falsity, a craving for enjoyments and erroneous belief],50 and for the destruction of bad karmas, I abandon my body [all bodily activity]."51
6. Sixth avasyaka: pratyākhyāna
The Namaskārasahita-sútra: sutra (of total abstinence] accompanied by the recitation of the Namaskāra-sūtra
"From sunrise [for the duration of one muhurta ending with the
49 evamaham āloiya nimdiya garahiya digumchiyaṁ sammam tiviheņa
padikkarto vamdāmi jine cauvvisam. AvaS 33. A brief synthesis of all the sūtras that make up the 4th avasyaka. The confession is global in its scope and ritual in character, but it is the inner attitude, the sincerity of the repentance that is important. This repentance has to do with 3 types of yoga: mental, vocal and bodily activities. It contributes towards the elimination of the karmas produced by these same activities. One concl auspicious note by venerating the jinas
50 Māyā, nidāna, mithya-darśana; cf. TS VII, 18; P 356.
31 tassuttarikaranenaṁ pāyacchittakaraņeņam visohikaranenam
visallikaraņeņam pavāņaṁ kammāņam nigghāyanathãe thâmi
käussaggam. AvaS 36. The 2nd sutra specific to this avaśyaka is that concerning the ākāras, the exceptions. In this sūtra one enumerates the slight and inevitable bodily activities such as breathing, coughing, yawning, etc. which have no effect upon kāyotsarga. One then promises to remain motionless, concentrated, forduration of one recitation of the Namaskāra-sútra (Avas 37). Upon the subject of the postures and obligatory observances of kāyotsarga, cf. P 327 ff.
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