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- Sallekhanāसल्लेखना
- Voluntary, passionless thinning of body and passions at life's end.
- Undertaken only when death is certain and near, with the teacher's consent, without desire for death or aversion to life — which distinguishes it from suicide, an act of passion.
- Chapter 7