Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c5.s5.6
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c5.s5.6
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(6) The sixth schism arose in Antarañjiyā and was started by Saḍūlaya otherwise known as Rohagutta after 544 years of Mahāvīra’s attaining salvation Saḍūlaya is said to have been the author of the Vaiseṣika sūtras. His followers were called terāsiyas and they held that between the life (jīva) and non-life (ajīva) there is a third state ‘no-jīva.’ According to the Kalpasūtra,⁷² the terāsiyas were founded by a disciple of Ajja Mahāgiri.