Daslakshan

• Daslakshan Parva

Festival of ten virtues is the Paryushan (forgiveness) festival celebrated by the Digambar Jains annually for self-purification and uplift.

1. Uttam Kshama Dharma - उत्तम क्षमा धर्मं (Supreme Forgiveness)
   To observe tolerance whole-heartedly, shunning anger.
   
   
2. Uttam Mardava Dharma - उत्तम मार्दव धर्म (Tenderness or Humility)
   To observe the virtue of humility subduing vanity and passions.
   
   
3. Uttam Aarjava Dharma - उत्तम आर्जव धर्म (Straight-forwardness or Honesty)
   To practice a deceit-free conduct in life by vanquishing the passion of deception.
   
   
4. Uttam Shauch Dharma - उत्तम शौच धर्म (Contentment or Purity)
   To keep the body, mind and speech pure by discarding greed.
   
   
5. Uttam Satya Dharma - उत्तम सत्य धर्म (Truthfulness)
   To speak affectionate and just words with a holy intention causing no injury to any living being.
   
   
6. Uttam Sanyam Dharma - उत्तम संयम धर्म (Self-restraint)
   To defend all living beings with utmost power in a cosmopolitan spirit abstaining from all the pleasures provided by the five senses - touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing; and the sixth - mind.
   
   
7. Uttam Tap Dharma - उत्तम तप धर्म (Penance or Austerities)
   To practice austerities putting a check on all worldly allurements.
   
   
8. Uttam Tyag Dharma - उत्तम त्याग धर्म (Renunciation)
   To give fourfold charities - Ahara (food), Abhaya (fearlessness), Aushadha (medicine), and Shastra Dana (distribution of Holy Scriptures), and to patronize social and religious institutions for self and other uplifts.
   
   
9. Uttam Akinchan Dharma - उत्तम अकिंचन धर्म (Non-attachment)
   To enhance faith in the real self as against non-self i.e., material objects; and to discard internal परिग्रह viz. anger and pride; and external परिग्रह viz. accumulation of gold, diamonds, and royal treasures.
   
   
10. Uttam Brahmachary Dharma - उत्तम ब्रहमचर्य धर्म - (Chastity or celibacy)
    To observe the great vow of celibacy; to have devotion for the inner soul and the omniscient Lord; to discard the carnal desires, vulgar fashions, child and old-age marriages, dowry dominated.