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xxxv) The guruvandana-sūtra (repeated twice).
xxxvi) The laghu-guruvandana-sūtra (to request permission to perform the rite of kāyotsarga).
6. Kayotsarga-vidhi
i) The Namaskāra-sūtra.
ii) The sāmāyika-sutra.
iii) The saṁkşipta-pratikramaņa-sūtra.
iv) Kāyotsarga (with reflection upon the sixteen aspects of dharmadhyāna.76 followed by the Namaskāra-sūtra repeated thrice).
v) The caturvimšalistava.
vi) The guruvandana-sūtra (repeated twice).
vii) The laghu-guruvandana-sūtra (to request permission to perform the rite of pratyākhyāna).
7. Pratyākhyāna-vidhi
The divasacarima-sūtra ( a promise made by the whole community to maintain total abstinence from sunset to sunrise. The guruņi utters the sūtra and each sādhvi replies: "vosirāmi", I renounce). 77
76 These aspects are enumcrated in the Aupapātika-sūtra 30 (ref. given by Mahāsati Tarulatā from a different edition to that cited in the bibliography).
77 Cf. the 6th avaśyaka (P 707); for the other types of pratyākhyāna, cf. AvaS 96-104. We may take special note of the one called abhigraha (AvaS 104), which vows not to accept nourishment except when certain conditions have been fulfilled; this was rendered famous through Mahāvira and his encounter with Candanā (P 124); this form of pratyākhyāna is sometimes, though very rarely, practised by certain ascetics.
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