History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s6.13

c12.s6.13

At a distance of over two thousand years the discrepancy of six months in the two statements is not very significant, but of the two the second seems the more probably accurate. It may be suggested that the extra half-year is the insertion of a meticulous copyist who had access to early records now lost to us and desired greater accuracy for Mahāvīra’s forecast.