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[Upasakadasangasutra]
Is he not capable of engaging in philosophical discussions with Mahavira?
Goshalak - Sakdalaputra! Just as a strong, healthy, excellent writer, with steady fingers, perfect and complete, with well-nourished hands and feet, with well-formed limbs like back, sides, thighs, etc., capable of enduring, with very dense, round shoulders like the embankment of a pond, capable of performing exercises like leaping, crossing, jumping long distances, swimming, jumping high, etc., quickly or speedily, a practitioner of exercises with leather bags filled with pieces of bricks, maces, etc., whose body is marked with signs from being struck by round pieces of stone the size of a fist, strung on a leather rope, while exercising - thus, whose body is strong and powerful through exercise, internally enthusiastic and powerful, with strong and long arms like two palm trees, suitable, efficient, quick-acting, proficient in the work of obtaining, skilled in the art, having reached the subtlety of the art - such a young man, wherever he grabs the paw, foot, hoof, tail, wing, horn, hair of a large goat, ram, pig, rooster, partridge, quail, dove, pigeon, cuckoo, crow, or hawk, he makes it motionless and still, in the same way, the Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira, wherever he catches me with various philosophical meanings, questions, reasons, and analyses, he will make me speechless. Sakdalaputra! Therefore, I say that I am not capable of engaging in philosophical discussions with your Dharmacharaya Bhagwan Mahavira.
Arrival of Goshalak in the Potter's Quarter
220. Then, Sakdalaputra, the Shraman Upasak, said to Goshalak Mankhaliputra, "Devanupriya! You are praising the truth, reality, facts, and true nature of my Dharmacharaya (religious teacher, Shraman Bhagwan) Mahavira. Therefore, I invite you to a hospitable seat, (platform-bed) and a comfortable place to stay, not as a matter of religion or penance. You may stay in my potter's quarter, accepting the hospitable seat, platform, (bed and comfortable place to stay).
221. Then, Goshalak Mankhaliputra, hearing this from the Shraman Upasak Sakdalaputra, accepted the hospitable seat, platform, (bed and comfortable place to stay) in the potter's quarter and stayed there.