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Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra SuriCauttha (चौत्थ) (Prakrit; in Sanskrit: Caturtha) refers to a kind of external penance, as occurring in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 28, l. 32]—Ṣaṣṭha (Prakrit: Chaṭṭha) and Aṣṭama (Prakrit: Atthama) are each a kind of external penance—mortification of flesh Every day one takes two meals So one who gives up one meal on the first day, two on the second and one on the third and thus gives up meals up, to the fourth, is said to be practising ‘caturtha’. Similarly one who gives up two meals on each of the two days and one meal on a previous day and one at the end, and, thus gives up meals up to the sixth, is said to be practising ‘ṣaṣṭha’. One who practises ‘aṣṭama’ gives up meals up to the eighth. [...] ‘Cauttha’ is explained as above by Abhayadeva Sūri in his commentary (p. 147b) on Ṭhāṇa (III, 3, s. 182).
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Starts with: Cautthayi.
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