History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c11.s2.12

c11.s2.12

This fantastic catalogue has been interpreted by Hoernle ¹ as an effort on the part of Gosāla to live down his past connection with Mahāvīra. For Barua “the only legitimate inference to be drawn . . .” is that “in this . . . enumeration . . . there is preserved a genealogical succession of seven Ājīvika leaders, together with a list of . . . successive geographical centres of their activities . . . ” ²