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Editorial (From the First Edition)
Salutations unto the Supreme Benefactor, the Supreme Soul, Mahavira, a hundred times over. By the mere remembrance of whom, the bonds of countless births of the seeker soul are broken, who, by ending the world of countless seeker souls, successfully made them luminous in the ultimate light of infinite Siddhas, becoming the immortal boon of liberation, and at the same time, for the sake of the Siddhi of other souls in the world, removed their tangled sorrows, becoming the life-giving force of unparalleled glorious tales. This Antagaddashaang Sutra, the eighth Anga Sutra in the Dvadashaangi, is the one that makes this tradition-received boon palatable and pure.
**Naming**
**Antakrit**
The name of this Anga is 'Antakrit + Dasha + Anga + Sutra', because this text contains the life stories of those ninety great souls who, by means of restraint-practice and austerity-practice, conquered the eight types of karmas and attained liberation from transmigration through eighty-four lakh species of beings, attaining the state of liberation in the final moments of their lives. Thus, the first element of the name of this scripture is 'Antakrit', because it gives prominence to the description of the life stories of those great souls who ended the cycle of life and death.