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Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q523

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Penance: crawling to Rome on knees Penance: walking on all-fours like beast Penance: eating food offered to dogs Penance: living under stairs as mendicant Penance: 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 them Penance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.) Penance: performing all services asked for by anyone Penance: king to take off crown and lick spittle from ground Penance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes
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Substitutions for penances Murderer does penance. (Cf. Q171.1.1, Q211.) Robber does penance. (Cf. Q212.) Life-long penance for brother-sister marriage King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed Penance in wilderness as punishment for men who left holy orders to marry. (Cf. Q226.) Warrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbers Tedious penances. (Cf. H1110, Q500.) Self-torture as penance Fearful penances Dangerous penances Pilgrimage as penance Penance: inviting one Brahmin for dinner every Wednesday Negative penances Penance: resisting temptation. (Cf. T330.) Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance
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Humiliating punishments

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