Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c5.s10.87

v1.c5.s10.87

Afterwards he propounded at Sāvatthī his new doctrin holding the view that whatever is being done should not be regarded as done what ever is done i.e completed should be taken as done ⁴ Mahāvīra held that what is passing through the process of performance and is shortly going to be completed can be taken as performed from a particular view point Jamāl differed from him in this matter He observed that when a thing is definitely done and then and then alone it can be taken as done A thing which is still in the process of being done cannot be taken as such Thus Jamāli was an extremist absolutist He is regarded as the first Niṇhava. After death he was born as a god of Lamtaa-Kappa.