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HERESY OF JAMĀLI, DEATH OF GOŚĀLA 193 favors! The Master entrusted Devānandā to Candanā and Rşabha to the elder sādhus and they reached the final vow. They learned eleven angas, practiced various and numerous penances, attained omniscience, died, and reached emancipation.
Jamāli's heresy (28–107)
Then the Blessed Vardhamāna, increasing the joy of the world, wandered over the earth covered with villages, mines, and cities. In course of time the Master arrived at Ksatriyakundagrāma, stopped in a samavasaraṇa, and delivered a sermon. King Nandivardhana came there with great magnificence and devotion to pay homage to the Master in the samavasaraņa. He circumambulated the Teacher of the World three times, paid homage to him, and sat down in the proper place, making the añjali from devotion.
Then the Lord's sister's son, his son-in-law, named Jamāli, came there with Priyadarśanā to pay homage. After he had heard a sermon and had obtained his parents' consent, Jamāli took the vow, together with five hundred of the warrior caste. Priyadarśanā, Jamali's wife, the Blessed One's daughter, together with one thousand women, took initiation under the Master. Then the Blessed One went elsewhere to wander and Jamāli also as a follower with the warrior-sādhus. In the course of time Jamāli, as he wandered, learned the eleven angas and the Lord made him the head of his fellowmendicants. He practiced penances, one-day, two-day, threeday fasts, et cetera. Priyadarśanā followed Candanā.
One day Jamāli bowed to the Lord and said, “ With your permission I and my group shall proceed with unrestricted wandering." The Blessed One knew by the eye of knowledge that evil would result and gave no answer to Jamāli asking again and again. Jamāli, with the idea that “ What is not forbidden is permitted," and his group separated from the Lord to wander. In the course of his wandering he 25 M
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