History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c14.s5.51
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c14.s5.51
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It would appear that the Ājīvikas had regular places for meetings and religious ceremonies. The *Uvāsaga Dasāo*⁴ refers to an *Ājīviya-sabhā* at the town of Polāsapura. When Gosāla visited this town, attended by the *Ājīviya-saṅgha*, he went first to the *sabhā*, where he deposited his begging-bowl (*bhaṇḍaga-nikkhevaṃ kareï*), and from whence he issued, attended by only a few followers, to visit his backsliding lay disciple Saddālaputta.