Book Title: Mahavira and his Teaching
Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti
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FASTING UNTO DEATH ACCORDING TO AYARANGA-SUTTA ... 117 The issue of this fight is decisive: from it depends the final liberation, the victory towards which the Jainas strive, the raising of the flag of full attainment (harah ārahana-paļāgam, M 129); for, says S 9.
laddham tu tae eyam pandiya-maranam tu Jinavar'akkhāyam
hantūna kamma-mallam, siddhi-padāgā tume laddha, “you have seized the wise's death, . . .; having smitten kammathe wrestler-, you seized the flag of success."
Thus, from the Ā yāranga-sutta to the Painnayas, the ways and means to Perfection have changed, the goal has remained the
same.
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