Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.254

c8.254

Kālaśilā.—It was a black rock on a slope of Ṛsigiri (Isigili) (Digha, II, 116; Papañcasūdani, II, 63). The rock stood so close to Gijjhakūṭa that it was possible for the Buddha to watch from the latter hill, when the Jaina ascetics were practising there the difficult penance of remaining in a standing posture, rejecting seats (Majjhima Nikāya, I, 92). On this rock Godhika and Vakkali committed suicide (Saṃyutta Nikāya, I, 120ff.; III, 124). The Kālaśilā was, perhaps, no other than what is called the site of Guṇaśilacaitya in the Jaina Uvāsagadasāo.