Book Title: Jain Penance
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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________________ 96 JAINA PENANCE the veerasana' For discontinuing, owing to political upheaval, au epidemic, and the like, a yoga undertaking with a long fixed period (2) if discontinued at the commencement of a fortnight alochana and may be pratikramana with one day's fast, or any other form of tapa penance up to a pancha kalyanaka pratikrama and a pancha halyānaka, tt) if in the middle of a fortnight as many fasts as the number of the remain ing days in the fortmight, (111) if at the end of a fortnight" one laghu māsa NOTE: The disturbed yogas, sthāna, mauna, etc., should also be re-established 17-CONCERNING THE BASTIKĀ For abiding, through ignorance, in a place full of moving or un-moving living beings (a) for one fault one fast, (b) for repeated faults one Lalyānaka 1 The teerasana is a sitting yoga posture, with the right leg doubled under itself at the knee, and the left foot resting on the right thigh All the abore yoga forms are undertaken for a fixed period of time, but they admit of one's getting up to discharge the functions of nature Of the above the vriksha mula and the atorana are termed sthira (unmoving) and the rest chala (moving) yogas According to some acharyas all the yogas are sthira (unmoving) yogas Two other names of yogas, the atapana and the aragraha are mentioned in the text The atapana signifies staying in the sun, but the purport of the other has not been Bscertained The penance for the discontinuance of the avagraha austerity 19 the same as that for the sthana and the mauna to whose class it belongs, but the penance for the atapana is not given It is, however, described as both sthira and chala Ch 72-74 Ch 76

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