Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c15.s2.1

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Jain texts give us quite a number of superstitions¹¹⁶ some of which survive even to this day. In the Jain texts we frequently come across the stock-phrase "nhāyam kayabalikammam kayahoyamangalapāyacchittam"¹¹⁷ i.e., having bathed, having made the offering to the house-gods,¹¹⁸ and having performed auspicious and expiatory rites (pāyacchitta). These rites were so common in those early days that they were performed before going to pay a visit to a temple, a saint, king or a great man.¹¹⁹