Jain Journal 1997 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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HOERNLE: THE HISTORY OF GOSALA MANKHALIPUTTA
Ambada Dadhapaïnna, as related in the Ovavaïya Sutta (p. 1290a).* Finally having become a kevalin, Dadhapaïnna shall recognise his previous existences, and assembling the Niggantha ascetics around him, he will tell them, how once on a time he was the wicked Gosāla Mankhaliputta, and how he came to a miserable end, and then wandered through an interminable series of existences. Thus he will exhort them to take a warning from his experiences. This account will be listened to by the Nigganthas with great awe. After that Dadhapaïnna will live many years as a kevalin, and at last depriving himself of all food, he will attain a blessed end (p. 1291a).
See Dr. Leumann's edition, §§ 89-116.
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