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This chapter examines the intimately connected conceptions of sin (pāpa) and penance (prāyaścitta) developed within the Dharmaśāstra tradition. Its primary aim is to demonstrate how numerous features of the Dharmaśāstra theory of sin and penance reflect a pervasive concern with two fundamentally different human activities: (a) the personal quest to avoid an undesirable life after death and (b) the process of excommunicating and readmitting members of a given social community. This chapter, therefore, highlights the rather stark distinction that Dharmaśāstra texts make in their treatment of ritual expiation between social and soteriological concerns. To this end, close attention is paid to the traditional distinction made between public and private sins and penances.
Title: Penance
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This chapter examines the intimately connected conceptions of sin (pāpa) and penance (prāyaścitta) developed within the Dharmaśāstra tradition.
Its primary aim is to demonstrate how numerous features of the Dharmaśāstra theory of sin and penance reflect a pervasive concern with two fundamentally different human activities: (a) the personal quest to avoid an undesirable life after death and (b) the process of excommunicating and readmitting members of a given social community.
This chapter, therefore, highlights the rather stark distinction that Dharmaśāstra texts make in their treatment of ritual expiation between social and soteriological concerns.
To this end, close attention is paid to the traditional distinction made between public and private sins and penances.
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