History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s2.10

c12.s2.10

Unperturbed, Mahāvīra replied that the magic power of Gosāla had had no effect on him, but that Gosāla himself would die of bilious fever within seven nights, smitten by his own powers. He, Mahāvīra, on the other hand, would live on earth as a jina for another sixteen years.⁶