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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t14.7

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t14.7

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c9.t14.7

It seems that like the weavers and the black-smiths, the potters found favour with the Jain *samanas*, who frequently took shelter in their shops.¹⁸¹ The potter Saddālaputta, to whom reference has been made already, was an adherent of the Jain faith. Hālāhala was another rich potter-woman of Srāvastī in whose shop Gosāla stayed.¹⁸²