Digambara Jains AND Śvetāmbara Jains - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Note to players: Two answers required. Kshamavani and Samvatsari are equivalent holidays for these two groups. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these two religious sects that each make use of the Prakit phrase “Michchhāmi Dukkadam” on those holidays, known as “Forgiveness Day,” which ends their religion-wide holiday of Paryushana.

ANSWER: Digambara Jains AND Śvetāmbara Jains [accept “sky-clad” Jains in place of Digambara; accept “white-clad” Jains in place of Śvetāmbara]

[10h] Śvetāmbaras and Digambaras render the name of this first meditative prayer differently. When carrying out this prayer, one verbally “bows” to arihants, siddhas, acharyas, upadhyayas, and sages to rid themselves of sin.

ANSWER: Namōkāra Mantra [or Navkar Mantra; or Pancha Namaskāra Mantra; or Navakāra Mantra; or Namaskāra Mangala; or Paramesthi Mantra]

[10e] Digambara monks carry feathered fly-whisks while Śvetāmbara monks carry woolen brooms known as rajoharans in order to avoid killing bugs in accordance with this pacifist principle central to Jainism.

ANSWER: ahimsa [accept nonviolence; accept noninjury]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	75%	38%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	22.22	89%	78%	56%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%

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Michigan C	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan D	Oberlin	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	Claremont B	10	0	10	20
Caltech	UCSB	0	0	10	10
Art of Premature Signaling	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
Too much from you lately	Billy's Bastion	0	0	10	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	0	10	10
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	0	10	10
Lexington	BU	0	0	10	10
MIT	Brown	0	0	10	10
Belmont	Harvard	10	10	10	30
Brandeis	RIT	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
NYU A	CWRU	10	0	10	20
NYU C	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
Catholic University of America	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers	George Mason A	10	10	10	30
Haverford B	George Washington	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
South Dakota School of Mines	Alberta	0	0	0	0
UW B	Arizona State University A	0	0	10	10
Carleton	UW A	0	0	10	10
Washington Connections	Arizona State University B	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD	0	0	10	10
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Quatumvirate	10	0	10	20
Free Agents 1	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	0	10	20
mongeese	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Gruh	10	10	10	30
MSJ	Notre Dame + Epic Games	10	10	10	30
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Mahjonng Masters	10	10	10	30
Egypt Airlines Haters	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	10	0	10	20
evil women enjoyers	Auburn 2026	10	10	10	30
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	we need new names	0	0	0	0
Sheffield C	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Warwick C	Imperial	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Guelph	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Mac A	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Ottawa A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo C	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Toronto C	UBC	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Waterloo A	McGill B	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	0	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	0	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	0	10	20
Lancaster	Cambridge	0	0	10	10
WashU Charmander	Truman State	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	WashU Squirtle	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
LSE	Sheffield B	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
SIUE	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Missouri	Iowa State	0	0	10	10