Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s1.t1: The Lay Followers of the Ājīviyas
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s1.t1
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The Lay Followers of the Ājīviyas
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The names of the twelve adherents of the *Ājīvika* faith are given as follows :—
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Tāla, Tālapalamba, Uvviha, Samviha, Udaya, Nāmudava, Nammudaya, Anuvālaya, Saṅkhavālaya and Kāyaraya They considered Arhat Gosāla as their God, were devoted to their parents, abstained from five kinds of fruits viz, *umbara, vada, bora, satara* and *pilaṅkhu*, gave up eating roots, bulbous roots, onions and maintained themselves by trade which did not involve killing and by means of uncastrated bulls They did not indulge in the fifteen occupations mentioned above ¹¹² The potter Saddālaputta¹¹³ and his wife Hālāhalā are mentioned as other lay followers of the *Ājīvikas* Sāvitthī and Polāsapura seem to be the centres of activities of the *Ājīvikas* where an *Ājīviya*-hall is mentioned.¹¹⁴
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¹¹² See supra, p 106
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¹¹³ Uvā 7.
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¹¹⁴ Ibid.
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- Uvāsagadasāo — Sudharman, Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit