Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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CHAPTER EIGHT Accha, Kutsa, Magadha, Vanga, Mālava, Kośala, Pāța, Lāța, Vajri, Māli, Malaya, Avādhaka, Angaka, Kāśi, Sahyottara, Gośāla's hot flash was acquired by severe penance.”
All the munis, Gautama and the others, were astonished. Good people do not feel jealous of the power even of an enemy.
Gośāla's death (434-470) The miserable Gośāla, burned by his own hot flash, drank wine to allay the heat, accepting a bowl of wine. Intoxicated by the wine, Gośāla sings and dances and frequently bows to Hālāhalā, making an añjali. He anointed his body with clay that had been pressed for pots and rolled in the water of the house-stream and drank it frequently. He spoke disconnected and contradictory speeches; and he passed the day nursed by his sorrowful disciples.
A lay-disciple of Gośāla there, Ayampula, observing a religious vigil in the first and last parts of the night, thought: “I do not know what shape the tļņagopālikā is.183 I shall go and ask Gośāla who is omniscient, my guru.” With this resolution, wearing simple ornaments, he went at daybreak to Hālāhalā's house and saw Gośāla in such a state. From shame Ayampula went away very quickly. He was seen by the sādhus, Gośāla's disciples, who said to him, “ Ayampula, in the last part of the night a doubt of yours arose regarding the shape of the tļņagopālikā.” Astonished, he said, “That is so." To conceal Gośāla's behavior, the sages said again to him: “Your guru explains that the fact that he is singing, dancing, holding a cup, and making the añjali are signs of the attainment of emancipation. For this is the last song, dance, making of the añjali, drinking, anointing with clay, and anything else. This is a sign of the
183 439. In the Bhagavati, XV, 1, according to Hoernle's Uv., p. 9 of App. I, it is the shape of the hallā insect that Ayampula asks about. I have not found the compound, tỉnagopālikā. Deśi., 2.98, has goālikā, an insect that appears in the rains.' It must be some sort of grass insect,