Editing Vinoba Bhave (section)

==Later life and death==
[[File:Shree 'Bharat Ram' Mandir, Paunar Ashram - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Building in the Paunar ashram]]
Bhave spent the later part of his life at his Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram in Paunar in [[Wardha district]] of Maharashtra. He died on 15 November 1982 after refusing food and medicine for a few days by accepting "Samadhi Maran" / "[[Sallekhana|Santhara]]" as described in [[Jainism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Justice |first=Christopher |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TW4jG0hxHcUC&dq=vinoba+bhave+died&pg=PA235 |title=Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City |date=1997-01-01 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-3261-7 |language=en}}</ref> Then the Prime Minister of India, [[Indira Gandhi]], who was visiting Moscow to attend the funeral of Soviet leader [[Leonid Brezhnev]], cut short her visit to be at the Bhave's funeral.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Boyd H. |editor1-last=Minor |editor1-first=Robert Neil |title=Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgita |date=1986 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-0-88706-297-1 |oclc=751652796 |language=English |chapter=Vinoba Bhave's Talks on the Gita|page=113}}</ref>