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either at Mathura or Taxila. These apart, he participated in discussions about many more things. By a process of synthesis of this vast material, he discovered and propounded his own path. "7 Elsewhere too, Mrs, Davids has noticed the Buddha having practised the Jaina method of penance in the following words, "In search of a guru he first reached Vaisali where he met Alara and Udraka and afterwards he practised the Jaina method of penance, "8
Notes on Chapter One
1. According to the Digambara tradition, Bhagavan Maha
vira was initiated into monkhood at an early age before his marriage.
2. Hindustan, New Delhi, March 31, 1962.
3. Majjhima Nikāya, Mahasimhanad Sutta, 1/1/2; also
Dharmananda Kosambi, Bhagayan Buddha, Pp. 68-9.
4. Devasenacharya, Darasanasāra, Ed. Pandit Nathuram
Premi, Jain Grantha Ratnakar Karyakaya, Bombay, 1920, sloką 6-8.
5. Dr. Radhakumud Mukerjee, Hindu Civilisation, revised
by Dr. Vasudevsárana Agarwal, Rajkamal Prakasan, Delhi, 1955, p. 239,
6. Ibid, Pp. 239-40.
7. Rhys Davids, Sakya P, 123.
8. Rhys Davids, Gautama the Man, Pp. 22-25.
