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दस लक्षण पर्व
Das Lakshana Parva · also Paryushan Parva (Digambara)
Ten days, each dedicated to one of the ten cardinal virtues of the dharma — uttama kshama, mardava, arjava, shaucha, satya, samyama, tapa, tyaga, akinchanya and brahmacharya. The Digambara observance of Paryushan Parva.
Ten days in the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada, each given to one of the ten cardinal virtues — uttama kshama, mardava, arjava, shaucha, satya, samyama, tapa, tyaga, akinchanya and brahmacharya. The structure is the content: rather than one theme sustained for ten days, the observance moves through ten, and each day’s discourse, reading and self-examination is about that day’s quality alone.
This is the Digambara observance of the season that Svetambara communities keep as Paryushana. It is longer, it falls in a different fortnight, and its organising text is the Tattvartha Sutra rather than the Kalpa Sutra — the ninth chapter, which names the ten, is read across the ten days.
The virtues are each prefixed uttama, supreme, and the prefix is doing work. Ordinary forbearance is a temperament; uttama kshama is forbearance held when there is every reason and every right to retaliate. The distinction is what the ten days are for.
How it is kept
- One virtue is taken each day, with discourse and reading on it; the ninth chapter of the Tattvartha Sutra is read across the ten days.
- Fasting is common, often on the first, the last, or both; some keep the full ten.
- The tenth day, Anant Chaturdashi, carries the fullest observance, and the day after it is Kshamavani.