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man of low caste and vulgar propensities, and who acts as a sort of buffoon'. He is involved in repeated difficulties and not unfrequently receives a beating, but when free from fault, the Yakshas, who attend on SIDDHARTHA, come to his aid, and destroy with fire the houses and property of his assailants. Amongst other enemies he provokes the followers of VARDDHANA SURI, the disciple of CHANDRA-ACHARYA, a teacher of the Jain faith, according to the doctrines of PÁRSVANÁTH. In the course of the dispute it appears that the followers of PÁRSVANÁTH wore clothes, whilst MAHÁVÍRA was indifferent to vesture, and the latter consequently belonged to the division of the Jains called Digambaras, or those who go naked, whilst PÁRSVANÁTH'S disciples were Svetámbaras, dressed in garments".
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1 Some curious and unintelligible things are related of this individual, which suggest a suspicion that the author had in view some of the oriental legends relating to Mani or Manes. birth of GośÁLA in a cow-house may or may not refer to Christianity; but it is also observed that his father and mother carried about a Chitra pattiká, a painted cloth or picture, which GośÁLA stole from them, and that when he adopted the service of MAHÁviRA, he abandoned the heresy of the picture चित्रफलक पाषण्डं विहाय.
± They reply to GosÁLA's enquiry: निर्ग्रन्थाः पार्श्वशिष्याः वयं "We are the pupils of PÁRSVA, free from restraint" to which he rejoins कथन्तु यूयं निर्ग्रन्या वस्त्रादिग्रन्यधारिणः । केवलं जीविकाहेतोरियं पाषण्डकल्पना | वस्त्रादिसंगरहितो निरपेक्षो वपुष्यपि । धर्माचार्यो हि यादृग्मे निर्ग्रन्यास्तादृशाः खलु ॥ “ How can you be free from restraint, encumbered with clothes and the like? these heretical practices are adopted merely for a livelihood: wholly unfettered by clothes and such things, and disregarding the body,
