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Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.253

Uttarajjhayaṇa 211.22.p1.253

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211.22.p1.253

tao saṃvaccharaddhaṃ tu | vigiṭhaṃ tu tavaṃ care /
parimiyaṃ ceva āyāmaṃ | taṃmi saṃvacchare kare ||253||

In the first four years he should abstain from dressed food, in the second four years he should keep various fasts. (251)
During two years he should eat Âkâmla at the end of every second fast; in the following half year he should keep not too long fasts. (252)
In the second half of the year he should keep long fasts. During the whole year he should eat but small portions of Âkâmla. (253)
During the (last) year a sage should make the ends of two consecutive fasts meet, and should break his fast after half a month or a whole month, (till he dies). (254)
The following (Bhâvanâs), Kandarpa-, Abhiyôgika-, Kilvisha-, Môha-, and Asuratva-(Bhâvanâs), will lead to evil ways (i.e. bad births); they are obnoxious at the time of death. (255)
Those souls who cherish heretical opinions, commit sins, and kill living beings, will not reach Bôdhi at the time of death. (256)
Those souls who cherish orthodox opinions, do not commit sins, and are enveloped in white Lêsyâ, will reach Bôdhi at the time of death. (257)
Those souls who cherish heretical opinions, commit sins, and are enveloped in black Lêsyâ, will not reach Bôdhi at the time of death. (258)
Those who love the creed of the Ginas and piously practise it, will be pure and free from the soil (of passions), and will (in due time) get out of the Circle of Births. (259)
The miserable men who do not know the creed of the Ginas, will many times commit unholy suicide and die against their will. (260)

Hermann Jacobi 1895, Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra (Gaina Sûtras II, SBE 45)

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