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CHAPTER XIV
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LORD MAHAVIRA AND GOSHALA XXXX**XX: (BX-X* •* *••*
n those days, there was a man named Mankhali, who earned his living by showing pictures to village people. He came with his wife Bhadra to a village named Shakhana, and stayed there in the Go-shala (cowshed) of a Brahman, named Bahala. Bhadra was pregnant at that time; and after completion of the period of pregnancy she gave birth to a son whom the parents named Goshala after the name of the place where he was born. Gradually the child grew young and began to learn the art and craft of his father with application. He was very clever, but his temper was rather strange. He was never on good terms with his parents, and the consequence was that he separated from them in their old age. Once, in the course of showing pictures to the village people as a hereditary profession, he came to RajaGriha and stayed in the same Dharma-shala in which Lord
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