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sieeping comfortably, he said, "O wicked disciples ! You move about with your heads shaved, you eat your food as you lik?, and you sleep the whole night. You do not even know that your worthy preceptor, has died. Ah ! how much devotion towards your guru. !" When Gośäla shouted in this way, the sadbūs got up and having suspicion at these words of Gośāla, they at once went to their ācārya, and on seeing that their guru was dead, they faint-heartedly and sorrowfully lamented, “Ah! you foste. red uz like your own children, taught us and established us in various virtuous qualities. However, we are ungrateful. What is the use of our hard austerities or of our intelligent knowledge ? What is the ide of our worthizess service rendered by our sojourn in our teacher's neighbour-hood ? That we could not know by our negligence when our own guru resembling Rohanācala (name of a mountain-peak, Adam's Peak in Ceylon) of excellent virtuous qualities and cvidently-3 heap of meritorious deedsdied Having often rebuked the sādhus who were thus, repeate. dly censuring their own negligent behaviour, Gośāla went to Áramuna Bhagavān Mahavira.,
Sramaņa Bhagavān Māhāvira then went to Corāk Sanniveśa, On that day there was a danger of an attack by hostije troups. On account of that fear, wien the watch-men of the village were looking upon foreiguers met with in triangular places, court yards, crapty schools, assembles, templies, forests, pleasure-gardens, and such other places, with suspicion of eneniy-spies they saw Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira standing in Kayotsarga in a innoceat place in a thicket of reeds in a plessure-garder accompained by Gośāla.
Under the suspicion that one agitated with fear is always looking for danger, they shought " Ah! their ætaying in such a solitary place is not advisable. If they are faultless why did they not pubìiciy remain in the village? They evidently seen to be enemy spies come here with the object of getting some useful information for the enemy.” With this idea in their mind, they asked śramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira and Gośāla, Ah ! who
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