Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.)
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Penance: crawling to Rome on kneesPenance: walking on all-fours like beastPenance: eating food offered to dogsPenance: living under stairs as mendicantPenance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.)Penance: slain cats, dogs, etc. to be hung up and covered with grain by man who has killed themPenance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.)Penance: performing all services asked for by anyonePenance: king to take off crown and lick spittle from groundPenance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes
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Substitutions for penancesMurderer does penance. (Cf. Q171.1.1, Q211.)Robber does penance. (Cf. Q212.)Life-long penance for brother-sister marriageKing who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passedPenance in wilderness as punishment for men who left holy orders to marry. (Cf. Q226.)Warrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbersTedious penances. (Cf. H1110, Q500.)Self-torture as penanceFearful penancesDangerous penancesPilgrimage as penancePenance: inviting one Brahmin for dinner every WednesdayNegative penancesPenance: resisting temptation. (Cf. T330.)Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance
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