Five Great Sins (Mahāpātakas) with Special Reference to Śaiva Siddhānta

The term prāyaścitta covers a number of rites and actions that are held to expiate or repair faults of omission and commission. In fact, many of the expiable offenses that are discussed in Saiddhāntika sources are not exclusively Śaiva but belong also to the realm of smārta traditions for they incl...

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Autor principal:	R. Sathyanarayanan
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5bf46986d49b44c4a49b98c1c81ef9562021-11-27T12:53:19ZFive Great Sins (Mahāpātakas) with Special Reference to Śaiva Siddhānta10.12797/CIS.16.2014.16.121732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/5bf46986d49b44c4a49b98c1c81ef9562021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1538https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The term prāyaścitta covers a number of rites and actions that are held to expiate or repair faults of omission and commission. In fact, many of the expiable offenses that are discussed in Saiddhāntika sources are not exclusively Śaiva but belong also to the realm of smārta traditions for they include such non-criminal and non-transgressive things as states of ritual impurity caused, for example, by life-events such as birth and death. The expiatory procedure for the five great sins vary between Śaiva and smārta systems. Śaiva scriptures prescribe different types of maṇḍalas for these five great sins using five BRAHMA-mantras to expiate along with moon-related fasting of kr̥ cchra, cāndrāyaṇa etc., and initiation (dīkṣā) or an installation of Śiva (pratiṣṭhā). Most of the smr̥ ti nibandhas say that the great sins are not expiable. Here I have focused on these two systems regarding the great sins, mainly taking into consideration the 12th-century Śaiva expiatory manual Prāyaścittasamuccaya of Trilocanaśiva. R. SathyanarayananKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleŚaiva SiddhāntasinsprāyaścittamaṇḍalaIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 16 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Śaiva Siddhānta sins prāyaścitta maṇḍala Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 R. Sathyanarayanan Five Great Sins (Mahāpātakas) with Special Reference to Śaiva Siddhānta
description	The term prāyaścitta covers a number of rites and actions that are held to expiate or repair faults of omission and commission. In fact, many of the expiable offenses that are discussed in Saiddhāntika sources are not exclusively Śaiva but belong also to the realm of smārta traditions for they include such non-criminal and non-transgressive things as states of ritual impurity caused, for example, by life-events such as birth and death. The expiatory procedure for the five great sins vary between Śaiva and smārta systems. Śaiva scriptures prescribe different types of maṇḍalas for these five great sins using five BRAHMA-mantras to expiate along with moon-related fasting of kr̥ cchra, cāndrāyaṇa etc., and initiation (dīkṣā) or an installation of Śiva (pratiṣṭhā). Most of the smr̥ ti nibandhas say that the great sins are not expiable. Here I have focused on these two systems regarding the great sins, mainly taking into consideration the 12th-century Śaiva expiatory manual Prāyaścittasamuccaya of Trilocanaśiva.
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Five Great Sins (Mahāpātakas) with Special Reference to Śaiva Siddhānta

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