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Becoming greatly angered, ibe cow-berds beat him with klcks, blows, sticks, and pebbles and tying him securely, they threw him into a thick mass of bamboos. Some travellers compassionately set Gośāla free,
Eighth Rainy Season. śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra accompanied by Gośāla, then entered into Rājagrał i Nagari, with the object of living there during the monsoon of the eighth year of liis ascetic life. During his stay there, he observed a continuous fasting of four months and a variety of vows. At the end of the fasting, Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra had his break-fast outside the town
Ninth Year of Ascetic Life ( B. C. 560-59.)
Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra thought. "I havy many evil Karmas remaining to be shed, let me iherefore, go to anarya (uncivilized) countries, and I will be able to destroy these Karmas wiib ihe help of the barbarians living there." With this idea uppermost in his mind and with the recollection of the examples of cultivaters and artizans later on described in the Sastras, Śramana Bhagavān Malāvira accompanied by Gośāla, again began to do his wanderings in uncivilized countries such as Lāta ancient Rādha country with its capital town named Kotiyarsa Nagara, a country in West Bengal, surcunding Murshidābād) Vajrabhūmi (Virābhoma territory of Bengal, now inhabited by Santhāls and other mountaineer tribes and Suddhabhūini ( a portion of ancient Radha desa where there was a large proportion of arya civilized) population. It is a territory in the neighbourhood of Murshidhābād) inhabited by wicked persons with the object of destroying his evil Karmas- Theke 40-Aryan pecple, averse to hearing a religious sermon, cruel, with their hands bioged with blood, and extremely terriblu like ferrocious demons mockingly abused Siamaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira, assaulted him, and they used to set free furious dogs and other wild animals towards him with the object of causing him bodily injurics. However, like a patient praising a physician causing him much trouble by a brisk purgative or a long incision or by a corrosive
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