History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.17
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.17
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c13.s2.17
The other ascetics (nirgranthāḥ) made a search for Pūraṇa, and while seeking him they met a prostitute. They asked her whether she had seen Pūraṇa, “clothed in the garment of righteousness”; she replied scornfully with an obscene verse, and would give them no information. Ultimately they found him lying dead in the lotus pond. They pulled out his body, and, leaving it on one side, they went away.