History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c11.s4.10

c11.s4.10

Moreover the word seems to have been used in Kashmīr as a proper name, and two Maṅkhas appear in the *Rājatarangiṇī*,¹ the second being a poet well known to students of later Sanskrit literature. Thus there is no justification for Hoernle’s contention that the word is meaningless. This point has been recognized by Charpentier, who, on the strength of a *sūtra* of Pāṇini, admits the possibility that Gosāla’s father was a mendicant bearing a picture board displaying a representation of the god Śiva.²