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- Sallekhana (IAST: sallekhanā), also known as samlehna, santhara, samadhi-marana or sanyasana-marana, is a supplementary vow to the ethical code of conduct...
- philosophy) was awarded to Muni Virasagar Ji. Padmanabh Jaini writes about his Sallekhana: It is 23 August 1955. On the holy mount of ****halagiri, in the state...
- of bioethics and public health and has focused on the Jain practice of Sallekhana and the Parsi practice of Dakhmenashini. She is currently the director...
- karmas, may take the vow of sallekhanā at the end of their life. According to the Jain text, Puruşārthasiddhyupāya, "sallekhana enables a householder to...
- householder is expected to observe seven supplementary vows (śeelas) and last sallekhanā vow. Mahavrata (lit. major vows) are the five fundamental observed by...
- meditation (can possibly be sallekhana.) and went to heaven". According to Hemachandra's legend, Chanakya also performed sallekhana. The Digambara Jain accounts...
- fast on two consecutive days. Sallekhanā is the last vow prescribed by the Jain ethical code of conduct. The vow of sallekhanā is observed by the Jain ascetics...
- near" the vow of sallekhanā (fasting to death) is observed by properly thinning the body and the p****ions. It also mentions that sallekhanā is not suicide...
- "prayopavesa" in Hinduism; "sokushinbutsu" historically in Buddhism; and as "sallekhana" in Jainism. Cathars also fasted to death after receiving the consolamentum...
- including three guņa vratas (merit vows) and four śikşā vratas. The Sallekhana (or Santhara) vow is a "religious death" ritual observed at the end of...