Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s8.t7.32
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c28.s8.t7.32
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c28.s8.t7.32
However, the expression *ārātaṉi* here is a Jaina technical term meaning 'ending one's life by the observance of ceremonial fasting unto death as a religious act of penance'. Cf. *ārāhaṇa* (AMg.) (< *ārādhana*) '*anaśana* (fasting unto death)' (*PSM*). Cf. (Ka. inscr.) *ārādhane nōntu* 'having observed the vow of *sanyasana* (fasting unto death)' (A.N. Narasimhia 1941: No. 33); The death of a Jaina monk by observing the *ārādhanā-vidhi* '(Jaina code of death)' is referred to in another Kannada inscription (*ARE* B. 239/1947-48, 14th cent. A.D.). Cf. **aṇacaṉa(m)** (**116.2**).