Tribes in Ancient India c50.281

c50.281

Rājagṛha was one of the three places selected by the Chabbaggiyas (Ṣaḍvargikas) of Vinaya notoriety, for planting centres of their mischievous activities. Rājagṛha, too, was the place where Devadatta fell out with the Buddha, tried to do personal harm to him, fomented schism in the Saṅgha, and eventually created a division in it.⁹ The Dhammapada Commentary records the jealousy of other sects towards Buddhism. Moggallāna, for example, was struck by certain fanatics with the help of some hired men.¹⁰ In the Petavatthu Commentary, we read that many heretics of the Saṃsāramocaka caste lived in some villages of Magadha.¹ Somewhere in Magadha, between Rājagṛha and Uruvela, not far from the Mahānadī (Mohānā) lived two teachers, Ārāḍa Kālāma and Udra Rāmaputra, who founded schools for the training of pupils in yoga.²