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Prabhācandra in performing Samlekhanā noted in S.B.I. The other inscriptions of Sravanabelgola which record such death are No. 11, 64-66, 117, 118, 126-129, 159, 389 and 477 eighty others. The earliest goes bsck, to the 7th Cent. A.D. These include both men and women, mostly monks and nuns; 64 males and 16 females. Out of these, 48 of the former and 11 of the later died between the 7th and Sth Centuries": Vide Professor S.R. Sharma, Jainism and Karnataka Culture, Dharwar 1940, p. 193 (iii) The Vaddarādhane very well demonstrates Samādhimarana in one of its stories. No. 14. Cāvundarāya Purana, Karnatak Sahitya Parişattu, Bangalore 1928, p. 24. Op cit., I, 29, The names of such authors are Vimala, Udaya, Nagarjuna, Jayabandhu, Durvinita etc., Kāvyāvalokanam, Mysore University 1939, v. 949. This conclusion, of course, is subject to revesion by otherwise new findings in future.
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