History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c13.s2.24

c13.s2.24

The pot occurs in both accounts; this fact strengthens the probability that this feature of the story has some basis of fact. We are reminded of the potter’s shop in which Makkhali Gosāla died, and also that Dravidian Ājīvika ascetics seem to have been in the habit of performing fatal penance in large funerary urns (*tāḷi*).³