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on shouting with a loud voice:-"This Mankhali Gosālaka is dead! Cosalaka, who boasted to be a Jina although he was not a Jina; who killed innocent sādhus, and who turned out to be a traitor to his own religious preceptor is now dead." Mendicants ! This is my last message to you and you are bound by a solemn oath to act accordingly. You should do it for the tranquility of my soul".
Gośálaka, thus, became pure by burning his evil Karmas in the fire of repentence. By dying with Samyaktva (Right Belief), Cośālaka was born as a god in Acyuta Déva-loka.
The actual carrying out of the final message of Gośālaka, was more heart-rending for the disciples of Gośālaka than the death of their religious preceptor. It meant an insult for themselves, as well as, for (ośālaka, but since they were bound by a solemn oath, they could not evade it After thinking deliberately for a long time they found out an escape from the oath. They at once closed the doors of the pottery-work of Hâlāhalā, and, in the midst of an open court they had a large map of Śrāvasti with streets market-places etc.-drawn in the court-yard. Then they had the dead body of Gołālaka tahen through the streets and market-places of the imagi.iary Śrāvasti, as desired by himself and made the said declaration also, but with a rather low voice. In this way, the disciples of Gośālaka staged the carrying out of the orders vyf Ga'alaka Then they washed his dead body, applied a raste of Candana (sandal - wood, to it, covered it with a white cloth and then after taking the dead-body in a big pa lanquin through the streets and market-places of Sravāsti, ihey did the suitable ceremonies *
* नमो सुयदेवयाए भगवईए । तेणं कालेणं २ सावत्थी नामं नगरी होत्था वन्नओ तीसे णं सावत्थोए नगरीए बहिया उत्तरपुरच्छिमे दिसीमाए तत्य णं कोहए नाम चेइए होत्या वनओ त थ णं सावत्थोए नगरीए हाला हल कुंमकारी आजीविओवासिया परिवसति अड़ा नाव अपरिभूया आजीवी
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