History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s2.1

c12.s2.1

After this incident Gosāla, filled with anger, visited Mahāvīra at the Koṭṭhaga caitya, attended as usual by a band of followers. Here he explained that he was not really Gosāla Maṅkhaliputta, the former colleague of Mahāvīra, but Udāī Kuṇḍiyāyaṇīya,¹ and expounded fully his doctrine of transmigration under the control of Niyati.² After this long lecture Mahāvīra replied that Gosāla was like a thief chased by villagers, feverishly trying to hide himself. " It won't do, Gosāla !" he said, " that shadow is your own, and nobody else's !"³