History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s6.2

c12.s6.2

As we have seen ¹ Gosāla is said to have lived as an ascetic for twenty-four years, the first six of which were spent with Mahāvīra, and the last sixteen as a pseudo-*jina* at Sāvatthi. It seems that the whole of the twenty-four year period occurred during the lifetime of his two greater rivals.