Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.712

v2.c8.s2.712

While at Rāyagiha twenty-three sons and thirteen queens of king Seṇia(9) as well as many other persons took initiation from Mahāvīra.⁸⁰ At Kosambī eleven queens of king Pajjoya were initiated by Mahāvīra. They were admitted to the Order of nuns.⁸¹ While in Polāsapura he converted potter Saddālaputta, a distinguished follower of the Ājiviya sect, to his own faith.⁸² In Rāyagiha he had also admitted some ascetics of the Caturvāma creed of the line of Pāsa(1), the twenty-third Titthaṃkara, to his community of monks of the Pañcayāma creed.⁸³ Mahāvīra had great reverence for Pāsa(1). There was no fundamental difference in their teachings as revealed by the discussion between Kesi(1) and Goyama(1)⁸⁴ At Kayaṃgalā Mahāvīra initiated Khamdaa(2), a Brāhmaṇa well-versed in Vedic literature.⁸⁵ Thus, persons of all classes, communities and creeds embraced Mahāvīra's four-fold Order.