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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Panaratithisajjhāya (पनरतिथिसज्झाय) is the name of a work by Gaṅgādāsa Sevaka dealing with Festivals in Jain literature.—The Panaratithisajjhāya (in Gujarati) is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Panaratithisajjhāya ((fifteen lunar days’) can be classified under Vrata literature in as much as it combines calendrical elements with exhortations to religious practice. Here, the former are the 15 lunar days. Each of them is associated with one or several terms known in the Jain doctrine as having a number of components corresponding to the lunar day in question. Either they represent negative notions that have to be controlled or avoided (the 4 passions, the 5 sense-organs, the 7 addictions, the 8 types of mada) or positive ones that have to be protected, followed or respected (the 6 types of living beings, the 9 protections of celibacy, the 10 aspects of monastic life, the 11 lay-spiritual stages, the 12 aṅgas of the Jain canon, the 13 līṇas; one’s own master corresponding to the full-moon day, i.e. 15). In other cases, the number refers to a postulate (the 2 ways of life – religious and lay –, the 3 worlds, 4 types of rebirths, 14 [rajjus] as the size of the world).

Thus this type of composition illustrates in an original way the fundamental indian tendency to classify notions numerically and to present them in a + 1 format format. Whereas here everything is collected in the form of a single poem, there are numerous examples where the same topic is dealt with in individual compositions forming a group of 15 that can be transmitted together or separately (see Bl catalogue no. 1135 bījā nī sajjhāya, for the second day of the fortnight, by Labdhivijaya, whose Panaratithisajjhāya is complete in 15 poems).

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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Partial matches: Sajjhaya, Panaratithi.

Full-text: Panaratithi, Gangadasa.

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