Discourse of Death in Jainism

Abstract

‘????????tasya mara???????????? dhr???? va????’ the man who is born has to die. That is the law of nature.
In the spirit of the above dictum Jainism has contemplated very deeply in novel path on death
and interpreted the same in a unique way. Every religion considered liberation from birth and
death as the true liberation, Jainism focused on the end of life and how it leads to successive
lives in future. At the same time it analysed death and evolved new concepts with regard to
death. This article makes an endeavour to explicate the ideas of death in Jainism