The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c7.41

c7.41

About the year 296 B.C. Chandragupta, warned by the Jain teacher Bhadrabāhu of the near approach of a terrible famine which it was prophesied would last twelve years, is said to have abdicated, devoted himself to an ascetic life and journeyed with Bhadrabāhu to Śrāvana-Belgola in Mysore, where shortly afterwards the latter died. Chandragupta survived him for twelve years and then, after the custom of the Jains, starved himself to death. His followers in large members are said to have travelled southwards to Punnād.