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Fifth Year of Ascetic Life (B. 0. 564-63 ).
At Kritängala Sannivesa, there lived some heretics named Daridra sthavira with their wives, property, sons, grand-sons, and other family-members. In the midst of their houses, there was an excellent temple, lovely with their ancestral god and beautiful with a tall pinnacle and an extensive upăśraya. In a solitary part of that temple, śramana Bhagavān Mahāvīra remained in Kāyotsarga for the night. On that day, the night was very cold with violent cool winds and mild frost. Besides; on that day these heretics had a festival in which all of them assembled in the temple with their children, wives, and their dependents, and they began to sing and dance together On seeing all of them merry-making in that way, Gośāla without caring for future danger, jokingly said “Where there is attachment towards females and greai antipathy to meditation and study, and there are śăstras propagating the methods of sensual enjoyments, where there is not the slightest mention of compassion to living beings, and where there is much wine-drinking, and where all the members of the family thus merrily sing and dance together immodestly, Ah! Cao there be any salutary meaning in such a beresy?" On hearling these harsh words of Gośāla, some persons angrily said. “Ah! Drive out this wicked man ! there is no sense iu Keeping hina here". Some of them ciught Gośāla by his neck and drove him out of the temple, Becoming troubled by severe gusts of cold-winds mixed with particles of snow, with his body trembling and humming like a lute with his teeth, and with horripilation over his entire body, Guśāla remajned outside the temple with his chest tightly covered by his arms
On seeing Gośāla in this condition, some other persons out of mere compassion took him into the temple. With the disappearance of cold after a moinent, Gośāla unable to check his evil nature, again began to talk as before. He was again iurned out, and brought into the temple. This, they did thrice. On the fourth occasion Gośāla went into the temple, and declared: - 'Let us leave aside the false notions of your doctrine
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