Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1545
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1545
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c19.1545
It is stated that when the monk Annikāputta was drowned in the Ganges, a *vāṇamantari* erected a pike in the river to impale him. Annikāputta attained *Kevalahood* at this place, and since then this place was declared as a holy Payāga (See also Pabhāsa ; Pāḍaliputta).