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अन्त्यावस्थिति (antyAvasthiti)

 
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अन्त्यावस्थिति Tatpur. f. (-तिः) The size of the Soul when,
according to the Jaina doctrine, it has become liberated
and thus arrived at a final i. e. atomistic state or one of
indivisibility and eternity
or the established condition of
the atomistic and consequently eternal size of the Soul,
when it has attained its final state. (Compare अन्त्य 1. 1.) Śan-
kara gives both interpretations of this word in the Vedānta
Sūtra which alludes to the Jaina theory of the atomistic
nature of the Soul: ‘अन्त्यावस्थितेश्चोभयनित्यत्वादविशेषः’.
E. अन्त्य (in the sense of the genitive, scil. जीव) and अव-
स्थिति.