History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s5.5
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s5.5
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c12.s5.5
On his death the Ājivika monks kept only the letter of his instructions. Upon the floor of the pottery they traced a plan of the city of Sāvatthi, and over this they dragged the body by its left foot, proclaiming all the while that Gosāla was not the true *jina*. Then they unfastened the rope from the ankle of the dead man, opened the door of the pottery, and, adorning the body according to Gosāla’s first instructions, performed the funeral with great pomp.¹