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THE PENANCES
(b) when repeatedly committed
16-CONCERNING UTTARA GUNAS
For the discontinuance, owing to illness, Insect-bito and the like' of
The uttara gunas are additional or special accomplishments, over and above the root virtues whose number is eight and twenty They are either special forms of fastings or of yoga austerities. The transgressions of some of them are given here with the proper penances
(1) the vriksha mula or the atorana' austerities
one gastha, a 3 days' fast, a 5-days' fast, & fortnight's fast, a month's or six months' or a year's fast, in the worst case, chheda
(for varying periods), and finally mula (reordination)
(11) the
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the
abhrāvakāsa,* sthōna, the mauna" and
88 many fasts as the number of the days that remained to be completed in the undertaking,
1 Ch 72-74
↓ The vriksha mula is a form of austerity in which the saint undertakes to stay under a particular tree for a fixed period of time The atorana is an engagement to stay in the open The abhratakasa means staying in but not under shade The sthana is the vow to remain in one place only The manna is the ron of silence
