What is 10 das lakshan days
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- What it is: 10 Das Lakshan days (Das Lakshan Parva) is a Digambar Jain festival of self-purification lasting ten days. Each day is dedicated to one of the ten supreme virtues (das lakshan) of the soul. Digambar Jains observe all ten days; Shwetambar Jains typically observe Paryushan for about eight days with similar inner-work but the explicit “Das Lakshan Parva” framing is usually Digambar.
- The ten virtues (Uttam …):
- What to do: during these days, practitioners engage in pratikraman, samayik, reading scriptures, fasting or keeping upvas, and practicing the day’s virtue through mindful conduct and forgiveness (Kshamavani) at the end of the period.
- Differences across traditions: Digambar tradition emphasizes the full ten-day Das Lakshan Parva; Shwetambar tradition emphasizes Paryushan (usually eight days) with core moral aims and the forgiveness focus, but without the explicit ten-day Das Lakshan framing.