prayaschitta
प्रायश्चित्त prayaschittaRitual expiation; prescribed acts of penance in the Dharmashastra by which the karmic weight of a fault may be reduced.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
…ven then they carry a karmic backlash that must be worked off through prayaschitta , ritual expiation.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
The Dharmashastra , the law literature, provides at length for prayaschitta , expiation: prescribed acts of penance, fasting, giving, pilgrimage, recitation, by which a person may reduce or cancel the karmic we…