Inviting Death: Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill (Revised Edition)

This book presents the history of the Jaina rules of inviting death, descriptive accounts of Puranic and historical personalities who embraced it, and an interesting body of epigraphical and archaeological remains over a millennium and a half on the Samadhibetta, the Sepulchral Hill, at Sravana Belgola, one of the foremost Digambara Jaina centres in the world.