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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s1.10

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s1.10

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c14.s1.10

Gosāla was well-versed in the eightfold *Mahānimittas* which he learned from the six *Disācara* ascetics. It seems that other *Ājīvika Samanas* also were adepts in this science, and so we are told that Ajja Kālaya, a great Jain saint, learned this science from them.¹⁰⁷