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JAINA PENANCE
8 Bahujana, questioning others about the
(merit of the) penance prescribed by the guru (leader), or adopting what was prescribed for another as penance
for one's own sins; 9. Avyakta, confessing before one of an equal
status; 10. Tatsevita, confessing to oneself, 2 e , adopt
ing the penance prescrbed for some one else for the same kind of fault
as one's omn. A confession is to be made before one's Leader (the acharya of the community of saints). The ten kinds of faults mentioned above are to be avoided All true facts should be disclosed before the leader.'
Alochanā is enjoined as the proper and adequate penance for the following sing
for faults committed because of the pataral imperfections in the performance of austerities and the control of the senses and the body and the mind,
for the various forms of movements, homerer carefully executed, inasmuch as all morements are really opposed to the nature of pure spirit,
for the movements performed with due care, whilst array from one's own community (of saints);*
i Ch 162 : s', 185
*S'.'186-187
*S'. 188
