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58 : Sramaņa, Vol 66, No. 2, April-June 2015 b) Cyāvita (Body compelled to release by suicide) c) Tyakta (Released body after religious death (samādhimaraņa), through meditation).
All these three bodies concerned after death are called bhūta. The last tyakta-śarīra is of three 24 types: (i) Bhakta-pratyākhyāna: During the meditation, before the death comes, the sādhaka serves his body himself and get his body served by others. It is called bhakta-pratyākhyāna.
(ü) Ingini: During the meditation when the sādhaka serve, 111s body and do not allow others to serve, then it is called Ingini. (iii) Prāyopagamana: when the sādhaka neither himself serves his body nor let others to serve him and lies on one side static like a wooden piece, it is called prāyopagamana.
Out of these three kinds of meditation, the first one, Bhaktapratyākhyāna is further divided on the basis of duration in three types:
A) Uttama: When the sādhaka gradually reduces his food day by day for twelve years and then releases his body finally , it is called Uttama. B) Jaghanya: At the last hours, when the sādhaka leaves food only for one muhūrta (48 minutes) just before the death, it is called jaghanya. C) Madhyama: To release the body after gradually decreasing the food for (4) Bhāva-nikṣepa25 (Modal Positing) The meaning, which satisfies the etymology of the concerned word, is a called Bhāva-nikṣepa (Modal Positing). In other words the meaning of the word accomplished by its actual state is bhāvanikṣepa. “Vartamāna paryāyayopalaksitam dravyam bhāvah'. The
