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12. Due to hurt by - weapons
7. Extreme death 7. Extreme death 8. Limiting death 8. Limiting death 9. Wavelike death 9. Wavelike death
10. Beginning-end
death (11) Death of Prudent 13. Unserved re- 10. Death of a fool 11. Death of a fool nunciated death by 11. Death of Prudent 12. Death of Prudent lying steadfast like 12. Unserved re- 13. As under col. 1 a tree
nunciated death by 14. By rejecting lying steadfast like gradual food intake a tree
13. As in column 1 14. As in column 1 14. Self-served re- 15. As in column 2 nunciated death 15. Death of pru- 16. As in column 2 dent-cum-fool 16. Non-omniscient death 17. Omniscient 17. As in column 2
death Whatever may be the cause or type of death, the canons suggest a devotional, religious and pious mind at the time of death for better rebirth. The canons do not mention any methods by which life-span could be increased except that religious and merited activities could mutate things for the better. Dhavalā says that a person could destinate himself either at the last one-third of current life-span or in the last 48 minutes of his current life59. The medical science is groping deep into the science of ageing and trying to increase the life-span as much as possible. Keeping at lower temperatures, undereating by 10%61, reducing neurological defects, supplementation of
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