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Mahavira diņipiyā(1), Assiņi(2). Salihipiya(2), Phagguņi, Varuņa(8).78 His first disciples were Imdabhūi and Camdanā(1).79 • While at Rāyagiha twenty-three sons and thirteen queens of king Seņia(9) as well as many other persons took initiation from Mahāvīra.80 At Kosambi eleven queens of king Pajjoya were initiated by Mahāvira. They were admitted to the Order of nuns.$1 While in Polāsapura he converted potter Saddālaputta, a distinguished follower of the Ajiviya sect, to his own faith.82 In Rāyagiha he had also admitted some ascetics of the Caturyāma creed of the line of Pāsa(1), the twenty-third Titthamkara, to his community of monks of the Pañcayāma creed.83 Mahāvira had great reverence for Pāsa(1). There was no fundamental difference in their teachings as revealed by the discussion between Kesi(1) and Goyama(1)84 At Kayamgalā Mahāvira initiated Khamdaa(2), a Brāhmana well-versed in Vedic literature. 85 Thus, persons of all classes, communities and creeds embraced Mahāvīra's four-fold Order.
Jamāli (the son-in-law of Mahavira) left the Order with his five hundred disciples at Māhanakumdaggāma and founded a new sect known as Bahuraya.
In course of time Jamăli's disciples returned to the Order of the venerable ascetic, 80 Jamāli was the first Ņinhava in the Order of Mahāvira. Tīsagutta was the Second one who separated from the Order in Mahāvīra's life-time.87
While delivering his sermon at Săvathi, Mahāvīra incidentally referred to Gosāla who was staying at the pottery of Hälāhalã in the same town. He told the audience that Gosāla wio claimed to be a Titthamkara was neither Omniscient nor the Founder of an Order. He was simply his disciple. This opinion reached Gosāla's ears. He felt insulted at it and came to Mahāvīra accompanied by all his disciples. A great number of people flocked there to listen to the dispute of the two Titthařkaras. Gosāla said : "O Kāsava(8)! it is wrong to say that I am your disciple, since your disciple Gosāla expired long ago. I am the Founder of an Order and my name is Udāi (1) of the Kumdiyāyaṇa lineage. I perform pautta-parihāra and enter into another's (dead) body. At present I have entered into the dead body of Gosāla. This is my seventh change of this sort. I shall live for sixteen years more in this body and then attain emancipation." Titthayara Mahāvīra replied: "O Gosāla! you are no other than my 78. Bha. 303, 433-5, 438, 634, Upa. 82. Upa, 41ff.
8-9, 18, 41-2, 47, 55-6, Jha. 93, 83. Bha. 226, 378-9. AvaCu. II. p. 193. The reader may 84. For details see ; Imdabhui, Kesi(1) see these names separately at their
and Pasa(1). own proper places.
85. Bha, 90ff. 79. Sam. 157, Tir. 455, 462.
86. Bha. 386, AvaCu. I. pp. 418-9. 80. Ant. 16, Anut. 1-2.
87. Ava Cu. I. pp. 419-420. 81. AvaCu. I. p. 91.
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