Uvasagdasao

SR No.: 010825
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 262
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 8 MB

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is untenable or false. The god on hearing this roply got puzzled and left tho place.
46. 174. facagarMarrù, whose answers to questions were completely refuted; Com. Patriarra FyETRA व्यक्तानि प्रश्नव्याकरणानि येषाम् ; प्राकृतत्वाद्वा निस्पिष्टप्रश्नव्याकरणाः; the word 4fitur means on exposition or explanation.
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The Ajivikas.
47-181. The sacred books of the Jains and the Buddhists make montion of the existence, contemporary with the foundation of Buddbism and Jainism of a sect of religious mendicants called Ājivikas. The founder of this sect seems to be Gosāle Makkhali. putta, who, both according to Jains and Buddhists, came from a low origin, the Jains calling bim to be the son of a picture-vendor or a wandering beggar who earned his livelihood by showing pictures to others. The Buddhists dall him Mukkhali Gosāla, and Buddhaghosa. explains in his Sumangalavilāsipi why he ras so called. He yas called Gosāla, both the Buddhists and the Jains say, because he was born in a cow shed. I have given in the second appendix all available data on the life and teachings of Gosāla frum the Jain and Buddhist sources, and would refer the readers for fuller information to (1) Dr. Hoornle's article on the Ajirikas, HERE, Vol.I pages 259-268; (2) Dr, B. M. Barua's monograph on the Ājivikas, Caloutta 1920; and (3) Dr. B. M. Barna's History of Pre-Buddhistic Philosophy, chapter xxi. The word Ajīvika seems to come from ajira, mode of life or