Narrative Tale in Jain Literature

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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THE STORY OF SADDĀLAPUTTA VIS-À-VIS
GOSĀLA MANKHALIPUTTA
A. F. RUDOLF HOERNLE
180. There was a town called Polāsapura. Near it there was the garden Sahassambavana. Its king was Jiyasattū.
181. There in the town of Polāsapura, lived a potter, named Saddālaputta, who was a servant of the Ajīviya. He having heard and understood and questioned and ascertained and mastered the tenets of the Ājīviya, and being filled with a passionate love towards them as for the most excellent thing, was conducting himself according to the dictates of the Ājīviya tenets, believing those tenets to be the truth, the highest truth, and all the rest to be false.
182. That Saddālaputta, the servant of the Ājiviya, possessed a treasure of one kror measure of gold deposited in a safe place, a capital of one kros measures of god put out on interest, a well-stocked estate of the value of one kror measures of gold, and one herd consisting of ten thousand head of cattle.
183. That Saddūlaputta, the servant of the Ājiviya, had a wife called Aggimittā.
184. That Saddālaputta, the servant of the Ājiviya, possessed, outside of the town of Poläsapura, five hundred potter shops. There a large number of men who received food in lieu of wages, day by day, prepared a large number of bowls, pots, pans, and pitchers and jars of six different sizes; and another large number of men who also reveived food in lieu of wages, day by day, used to carry on a trade on the king's high road with that large number of bowls and (as above, down to) jars of various sizes.
185. Then that Saddālaputta, the servant of the Ājīviya, at some time or other, at the time of the midday hour, went to where the little grove of Asoga trees was; and thence forth he lived in conformity with the law which he had received in the presence of Gosāla Mankhaliputta.