History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.5

c12.5

At this time he was visited by six *disācaras*, named Sāṇa, Kalanda, Kaṇiyāra, Acchidda, Aggivesāyaṇa, and Ajjunna Gomāyuputta. According to the text the six ascetics "extracted the eightfold *Mahānimitta* in the *Puvvas*, with the *Maggas* making the total up to ten, after examining hundreds of opinions". After briefly considering this eightfold *Mahānimitta* Gosāla declared the six inevitable factors in the life of every being—gain and loss, joy and sorrow, life and death.² Thenceforward he claimed to be a *jina*, an *arhant*, a *kevalin*, and a possessor of omniscience.