History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.12
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.12
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c13.s2.12
On the seventh day the contest took place outside the city, where each teacher was provided with a specially prepared pavilion. The Buddha performed several spectacular miracles, but the six heretics were powerless, and their discomfiture was completed by a violent rainstorm, caused by Pañcika, the general of the *yakṣas*. The heretics ran in all directions, but the Buddha was untouched by the rain, and his rivals were put to the final humiliation of having to take refuge in his pavilion.