A New Contribution to the Discussion of a Problem of Jaina Monastic Discipline

Dr. Colette Caillat's degree thesis dealing with the problem of expia- tion as understood by the Jaina religious authorities and originally appearing (in 1965) in her mother-tongue French is now available in an English translation competently made 1 Based on a painstaking study of the first three chapters of the monastic-disciplinary text Vyavahārasūtra (along with

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दीक्षित कॉलेट कैयाँ के जैन मुनि-प्रायश्चित्त विषयक शोधप्रबन्ध के अंग्रेजी अनुवाद की विस्तृत परीक्षा करते हैं। व्यवहारसूत्र तथा उसकी टीकाओं के उनके पाठ को वे खण्डशः जाँचते हैं — गच्छ की व्यवस्था, सम्भोग, दस वैयावृत्त्य, प्रायश्चित्त के भेद और परिहार-तप — और अनेक स्थलों पर संशोधन सुझाते हैं। Dixit examines the English translation of Colette Caillat's thesis on atonement among the Jaina monks. Section by section he tests her reading of the Vyavaharasutra and its commentaries, on the hierarchy of the gaccha, sambhoga, the ten vaiyavrtyas, the prayascitta types and the parihara penance, correcting her at several points.

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