The Sanskrit term Śrāvakapratikramaṇasūtra can be transliterated into English as Sravakapratikramanasutra or Shravakapratikramanasutra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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General definition (in Jainism)

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Śrāvakapratikramaṇasūtra (श्रावकप्रतिक्रमणसूत्र) is the name of a work dealing with the Āvaśyaka section of Jain Canonical literature.—The Śrāvakapratikramaṇasūtra (in Prakrit and Sanskrit with interlinear Gujarati commentary) 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 Śrāvakapratikramaṇasūtra is a Six obligations ritual (ṣaḍāvaśyaka) performed by a layman in front of a Guru. That it concerns a layman is confirmed by the reference to the five minor vows (12r5 pacanhaṃ aṇuvvayāṇaṃ) in the enumeration of terms in increasing order (caraṇavidhi). like all works of this kind, the present ms. is made of several distinct units which follow each other. [...]

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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: Shravakapratikramana, Sutra.

Full-text: Shadavashyaka, Shravakapratikramana.

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