Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t3.1
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t3.1
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c14.t3.1
The institution of hermits or *Tāvasas* is very old. We hear that on one of the journeys he made during his ascetic life, Mahāvīra put up in a hermitage (*āsamapada*) in Morāga Sannivesa.⁷² Mahāvīra came across another hermitage named Kanakakhala in Uttaravācāla where five hundred hermits were staying;⁷³ still another hermitage is referred to in Poyanapura where Vakkalacī was born.⁷⁴