History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s3.1

c12.s3.1

The discomfited Gosāla, once more at his headquarters in Hālāhalā's pottery, appears to have lapsed into a state bordering on delirium. He clutched a mango stone in his hand, drank spirits, sang continuously, danced, did reverence to his patron Hālāhalā,¹ and sprinkled his fevered limbs with the cool muddy water in which the potter's clay had been mixed.²