आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(r. 1042–1068) Monarch in the Chalukya
dynasty. Aside from his long reign, he is
most noted for performing religious suicide by intentionally drowning himself
in the Tungabhadra River when his
mental faculties began to wane.
Although in general suicide was strongly
condemned, suicide by a person suffering from a terminal disease or enduring
chronic pain was a well-attested exception to this rule. This sort of suicide was
performed according to a well-defined
ritual, which was intended to put the
performer in the proper frame of mind.
In about the twelfth century this was
declared one of the rites “forbidden in
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the Kali [Age]” (Kalivarjya), although it
had been permitted in earlier times.