Source: The Arizona Republic
On November 14, 1998, The Arizona Republic published an
article on Prem L. Gandhi, a Jain woman who completed a 45-day fast
during which she only drank small amounts of boiled water. Gandhi,
who lives in Tempe, AZ but is originally from India, went to the
small western Indian town of Palitana to undergo the fast. Gandhi
fasted one day for each volume of the Jain holy scriptures, the 45
agams of the Ardhamaghdi.