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HERESY OF JAMĀLI, DEATH OF GOŚĀLA 191 report arose everywhere that Jamāli, dissenting from the Teacher of the World because of delusion, had adopted wrongbelief.
One day in his wandering he came to the city Śrāvasti again and remained in a certain garden, surrounded by his followers. The sādhvi Priyadarśanā with a thousand sādhvis stayed in the house of a wealthy potter, Dhanka. When Dhanka, who was an advanced layman, had seen her adhering to false doctrine, he thought, “I shall enlighten her by some device or other.”
azf oined One day while collecting wares he dropped intentionally a spark of fire, which was unnoticed, on Priyadarśanā's habit. When she saw that her habit was being burned Priyadarśanā said: “Look, Dhanka, my habit is burned by your carelessness.” Dhanka said: “Do not speak falsely, sādhvi. For according to your doctrine, it is proper to say such a thing when the whole habit has been burned. “Being burned is burned,' is the teaching of the holy Arhats. It is fitting for you to adopt that teaching of theirs from your experience.”
After hearing that she, with pure thought arisen, said: “I, deluded for a long time, have been well enlightened by you. Alas ! for so long a time Sri Vira's teaching has been corrupted. Let my sin be uncommitted, as it were. Henceforth, it (Vira's teaching) is authority.”
Dhanka said to her : “ It will be all right in the end. Now go to the All-knowing to make atonement.” So advised by Dhanka, saying, “We wish instruction,” she left Jamāli and with her followers went to Vira. All the other munis except Jamāli were enlightened by Dhanka and went to Sri Vira Svāmin.
Then Jamāli wandered over the earth alone for many years, deceiving by false doctrine, observing the vow. At - the end he fasted for two weeks. He died without confessing his own sin and became a Kilbişika in the sixth heaven.
Having learned that Jamāli was dead, Gautama paid homage to the Lord and asked, “What status did Jamāli,
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