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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 130, col. 2.
    antyāvasthiti Tatpur. f. (-tiḥ) 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 antya 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: ‘antyāvasthiteścobhayanityatvādaviśeṣaḥ’.

    E. antya (in the sense of the genitive, scil. jīva) and ava-

    sthiti.