History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c11.s6.12

c11.s6.12

At a settlement called Kumāraya Gosāla was involved in an altercation with a group of ascetic followers of Pārśva. He tried to destroy their settlement by the same process as that which he had employed on the house of Uvaṇanda, but the superior virtue of the proto-Jaina ascetics prevented his curse from taking effect.⁷ At another settlement called Coraga the two were suspected of being hostile spies and were thrown into a well, but were recognized by two female followers of Pārśva, and were released. The second rainy season of their association was spent at Piṭṭhicampā.¹