History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c16.s1.6

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³ “. . . Daḍhapaïnna, a wealthy citizen of the great Videha country, sought to bring about a reconciliation between the hostile sects by conferring with the Jainas” (JDL. ii, p. 54). “The Bhagavatī Sūtra refers to an Ājīviya committing religious suicide sometime after Gosāla's death” (ibid., p. 71). Barua backs both these statements by references not to the Sūtra but to Hoernle's paraphrase of its relevant chapter (Uv. Das., vol. ii, app. i). Both the