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JAINA PENANCE
veerya mudră It is released only when the saint has made up his mund to accept the food and after he is satisfied that it is unobjeotionable in erers ray He is free to shift his position of the one he has taken up 15, or becomes, unsuitable from any cause, but not after he has released the mudrā. If the necessity for shifting arise subsequent to the sot of release he must go witnout food at the time altogether, though not one morsel bas been taken by lum
Nu vihi iti=unsaroury, that is, rasa-less food.
The 7 asas are. milk, card, ghee, oil, sugar
and salt. Upapasa =a fast Purumandala=refraining from food till after
the mid-day sānāyrka (7 6, 1-15 pm) Kalyānaka=one each of the quintette of
achāmla, nirvikrili, purumandala,elas.
thāna and upavāsa. 4 Kalyānalas=1 bhinnamāsa ō Kalyānalas=1 ga imāsa. 5 Kalyānalas menu the nervulritis,
achāmlas, or upavāsas=1 laghumāsa. According to the Chheda Šāstra, a laghrimāsa consists of 5 upavāsas and 5 each of three other items out of the remaining four. A Laghumāsu also signifies the observance of the pancha-halyānaka witha regular interrals
