History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.23
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.23
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c13.s2.23
Certain elements of the two Buddhist stories differ, but their common features are more numerous. Both agree that, after a miracle contest at Sāvatthi, in which Pūraṇa and his fellow ascetics were worsted, and which was followed by a violent storm, he committed suicide by drowning, with a pot tied about his neck.