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What is the Tivihar?

In tivihar one does not take food of any kind including liquids except water after the sunset until the sunrise next day but can take water.

 What is the Chauvihar?

Chauvihar means one does not take any food or any liquids after the sunset until the sunrise next day.

1 Navkarsi

Don’t eat or drink untill 48 minutes after sunrise, then recite Navkar 3 times and

break the fast. By doing navkarsi one day, a person can shed karmas

equivalent to 100 years of torture in hell – i.e. karma nirjara.

2 Porasi

You break fast more than 3 hours after sunrise. Karma nirjara equivalent to

1,000 years of hell life.

3 Sadhporasi

You break fast 4½ hrs after sunrise. Karma nirjara – 10,000 years of hell life.

4 Purimuddha

Break fast exactly after ½ day passes = 100,000 years of karma nirjara from hell

torture.

5 Avadha

When only ¼ of the day remaines, break the fast.

Aekashan

Eat only once, sitting at one place for less than 48 minutes. Also drink cooled

boiled water, up to sunset. 1 million years equivalent karma nirjara.

7 Nivi

Eat only in one sitting, eat special fried food and things made out of yogurt.

Karm nirja =10 million years

8 Aymbil

One meal without any vigai (10 billion years of karma nirjara)

9 Ansan

Means fasting, partial or complete, for a pre determined time.

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