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Fearful penances.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q524

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Filed under Penances.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Penance: spending lonely night in cave Penance: lying the first night with every corpse brought to certain church
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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 Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.) 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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