History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c14.s6.4

c14.s6.4

The suspicion is strengthened by Abhayadeva’s definition of the two paths (magga), which the six disācaras extracted from the Puvvas, together with the eight mahānimittas, at the conference with Gosāla shortly before his death.² These paths, according to the commentator, are those of song and dance.³ Two of the eight finalities of the Ājīvikas are said to be carime geye and carime natte, the last song and dance,⁴ and Gosāla himself is said to have sung and danced in his last delirium.⁵