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Pahele pränätipäta, bije mrushäväda,
trije adattädäna, chauthe maithuna,
pänchame parigraha, chhathe krodha,
sätme mäna, äthme mäyä,
navme lobha, dashme räga,
agyärme dvesha, bärme kalaha,
terame abhyäkhyäna, chaudame paishunya,
panderame rati-arati, solame para-pariväda,
saterame mäyä-mrushä-väda, athärame mithyätva-shalya;
ae athära, päpasthänakamahen, mahäre jive, je koi papa
sevayun hoi, sevrävyun hoi, sevatän pratye anumodhyu hoi, te
savi hun mane, vachane käyae kari, michchhämi dukkadam.

Meaning;

IN OUR LIFE WE MAY COME ACROSS MANY SINFUL ACTIVITIES.  JAIN LITERATURE HAS CLASSIFIED THEM INTO THE FOLLOWING EIGHTEEN CATEGORIES AND WE REPENT FOR INDULGING IN ANY OF THEM:

1 PRANATIPAT    TO HURT OR KILL ANY LIVING BEING (VIOLENCE)

2 MRISA-VADA    TO LIE

3 A-DATTA-DANA    TO STEAL

4 MAITHUNA    SENSUOUS INDULGENCE OR UNCHASTITY

5  PARIGRAHA    POSSESSIVENESS AND ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH AND POWER

6  KRODHA    ANGER

7   MANA    EGO

8   MAYA    DECEIT OR DECEPTION

9  LOBHA    GREED

10  RAGA    ATTACHMENT OR CRAVING

11 DVESA    RESENTMENT OR AVERSION

12  KALAH    DISPUTES OR QUARRELLING

13  ABHYAKHYANA    ALLEGATION OR FALSE ACCUSATION

14  PAISUNYA    SLANDER AND BACKBITING

15  RATI-ARATI    AFFECTION AND DISAFFECTION

16   PARA-PARIVADA    BEING HAPPY IN SINFUL ACTIVITIES AND BEING UNHAPPY IN VIRTUOUS

ACT AND GOSSIPING.

17 MAYA-MRISA-VADA    TO LIE MALICIOUSLY OR DECEITFUL LYING

18 MITHYATVA-SALYA    TO HAVE WRONG PERCEPTION OR TO BELIE IN MATERIALIST GOD,

GURU OR RELIGION

IF I HAVE COMMITTED ANY OF THE SINFUL ACTS PERSONALLY, HAVE ENCOURAGED OTHERS TO COMMIT

THEM, OR HAVE APPRECIATED THEM BEING COMMITTED BY OTHERS, MENTALLY, VERBALLY OR

PHYSICALLY, I SINCERELY REPENT AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.