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they used the language of and drew disciples mostly from the mass ; the Brahmana looked on and ignored them ; in the Maurya days (4th-3rd century B.C. ) he lacked political prestige ; origin of the Ajivika sect; Gośāla and the Jains ; Mahāvira exhorted all his followers never to hold any inter course with the heretical Gośäla and the Ajivikas ; this Jain Ajivika hostility divided counsel crippled Jainism at the start.
Pp. 131-39. Present Barābar Hill (Old Goradhagiri, 2nd century B.C.; Kharatika Hill, 3rd and 2nd century B.C. ; and Pravara hill, 6th-7th century A.D.) is situated 15 miles north of Gaya. The inscriptions in the caves mention grant of those caves to the Ajivikas ; in three cases the word Ajivikehi has been deliberately chiselled off according to the views of Mr. A. BANERJI-SASTRI, Khāravela as a pious Jaina, attempted to wipe out old scores by oblitrating the hated name of the imposter Goaśāla's Ajivika followers ; the crocodile and elephant motif (in the facade of the Lomasa Rși cave)-the crocodile design is hardly even found in the North, it was an importation from the South) and the Goradhagiri facade end inscriptions are intimately connected with the Udayagiri (Khāravela) inscriptions and facades both done by a Jaina who signed his creed in the mutilation of the letters Ājivikehi ; Makara (crocodile), Svastika, trisula and fish are Jain symbols.
P. 167. Khāravela's invasion of Magadha in the 2nd century B. C. was associated with sectariant of religious ascendency of Jainism; (note.JAYASWAL'S explanation of Pithuda-prithula, 'large' is unconvincing in the line 11 of the Khāravela inscriptions. Pithuda Pithumda i. e. Ptolemy's Pitundra at the mouth of the Godavari and the Kistna).
P. 171-note. The inscriptional records of Bihar and Orissa are such necessary symbols of Buddhist, Jain and Hindu ways through which the Indian mind was gradually approximating to its cherished ideal of synthetic unity.
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JAYASWAL, K. P. The Murunda Dynasty and the date of Padalipta (Malaviya Commemoration Volume, Benares, 1932, Pp. 185-7).
P. 185. Jaina texts mention a Murunda ruler at Pātaliputra who sends his envoy to Purisapura (Peshwar).
P. 186. Religious inscriptions of the Jaina teacher Pädalipta to the Murunda of Pāfaliputra noted in several Jaina texts, ineluding the Prabhavaka-carita. Medieval Jaina monks give his date about 484 A.M. (43 B.c.) (J.R. A.S, 1925, P. 86)—the actual date should be middle of 3rd century A.D.
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