Sramana 1997 04

SR No.: 525030
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 228
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 10 MB

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He lived, except in the rainy season, all the eight months of summar and winter, in villages only a single night, and in towns only five nights. He was indifferent alike to the smell of ordure and the sweet scent of sandal, to straw and jewel, dirt and gold, pleasure and pain, this world or the world beyond, to life and death, He exerted himself for the stoppage and the defilement of karmas. Wandering and Meeting with Gośāla
The Acārānga mentions that renunciation implied the quitting of the northern ksatriya part of the place Kundagrāma, and arrival in the village Kummāra presumably a suburb of Kundagrāma. Then he moved to the settlement of Kollāga, near Vaisāli, where he was hospitably received by the Brāhmaņa Bahula. After roaming about in this area for six months, Mahāvīra came to Asthigrāma, to spend his first rainy season their. On way to Asthigrāma, Mahāvīra had the first taste of those bitter experiences which were going to be a common feature of his sādhaka life-(a) of hostility towards him of the other Parivrājaka sects roaming in those areas, and (b) of his persecution at the hands of various tempter gods.
Mahāvīra's second rainy season was spent at Nalanda, where he was met by Gośāla Mankhaliputta (Maskariputra), The Ājīvaka teacher. He was attracted by Mahāvīra owing to his extraordinary self-restraint and impressive habits of meditation. Possibly another factor, Mahāvīra's capacity to predict the things correctly, also helped to increase Gośāla's keenness in him. From this time onwards both travelled together for a period of over six years, and visited Campā, Bhaddilā the capital town of the Mallas, Magadha, and Ladha deśa. In the tenth year, on return from the Ladha deśa, while they were travelling from Kumāragrāma to Siddhārthagrăma, there sprang up acute differences of opinion between them. Gośāla separated himself from Mahāvīra and became known as the founder of the Ājivaka sect.