________________
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
145
to Panini was made; and it is probably referred to in an inscription mentioned by Cunningham.'
Of the other schools or corporate bodies of Wanderers, or of Hermits, only the names are known. But as even the names throw light on the movement they may here be mentioned. They are:
1. Munda-savakā.—“The disciples of the Shaveling."
2. Fatilaka.- "Those who wear their hair in braids." To do so was the rule for those of the Hermits who were brahmins, and perhaps other hermits also did so. In that case they cannot have formed one corporate body.
3. Magaṇḍikā.— This name is probably derived from the name of the founder of a corporate body. But all their records have perished, and we know nothing of them otherwise.
4. Tedandika. “The bearers of the triple staff." This is probably the name given, in the Buddhist community, to those of the Wanderers (not Hermits) who were brahmins. They were not allowed, by their rules, to wear their hair in braids, but must either have their heads shaved entirely, or so shaved as to leave a forelock only.
5. Aviruddhaka.-" The friends." yet nothing otherwise about them.
We know as
6. Gotamaka.-"The followers of Gotama." These are almost certainly the followers of Devadatta, the Buddha's cousin, who founded an Order in opposition to the Buddhist Order, on the ground that the
I Archaological Reports, xx. 105.
* For references see Dialogues of the Buddha, pp. 220-222.
IO
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
