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प्रायोपवेशprāyopaveśa

प्रायोपवेश (prāyopaveśa) is a Sanskrit word meaning abstaining from food and awaiting death, a vow of fasting unto death.

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sitting down or lying down on the ground to starve oneself to death

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

abstaining from food and awaiting death

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

A vow of fasting unto death.

— The Purana Index

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Definitions on this page come from 3 works: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.