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his name and his upper garment on the masonry platform and disappears. Thus in this story Kundakoliya refuted the theories of heterodox people by means of thesis, arguments, questions, proofs and explanations based on the sacred collection of the twelve Añgas. Like a true ascetic he was reborn as a god.
In the seventh chapter Saddalaputta, a disciple of the Ājivika conducted himself according to the dictates of the Ajīvika tenets. A certain god appeared before him in mid-air when he was living a life according to the law received in the presence of Markhaliputta. The god spoke to him to receive the person coming next day. Next day Mahāvīra went there. Mahāvīra preached him twelve fold law of a householder which consists of the five lesser vows and the seven discriplinary vows, 8 when he was fully couvinced Gosāla Markhaliputta failed in his efforts to prevent transgressing of Saddālaputta from his doctrine to the doctrine of Mahāvīra. Saddālaputta sanctified himself by practising the vows and observances for fourteen years. During the fifteenth year at one mid-night there appeared a certain god, brandishing a large sword of dark blue Justre,9 slew his sons and he spattered his body with flesh and blood, even though Saddālaputta remained engaged in meditation of the religion. Everything happens as in the case of Cullanipiyā. Lastly he is reborn as a god.10
In the eighth chapter Mahāsayaga is not disturbed by any god. But his wife Revai comes in the way. She deprived her twelve co-wives of their life either by weapon or by poison. Being, mad after meat, juices, liquor and spirits of various kinds together with many kinds of food consisting of roasted or fried or baked meat, she tried to often excite Mahāsayaga in a state of intoxication with the passion of love. Once he grew furious and applied his supernatural power. Consequently she was reborn as a hell-being. Lord Mahāvīra conveyed a message to him through Goyama to confess the sins and santify himself by many exercises in the moral restraints. He observed austerities for twenty years and was reborn as a god after death. 11
In the remaining two chapters the stories of Nandinipiya and Sālihipiya and narrated. There we do not come across the interruption by any god or a wife.
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