Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c13.3

c13.3

In the *Uvāsagadasāo* (Lecture I) we find that Vāṇiyagāma or Vesālī was ruled by Jiyasattu. Vesālī and Videha were ruled by Ceḍaga, the maternal uncle of Mahāvīra. The same text refers to the site of an ancient shrine called Guṇasīla in the neighbourhood of Rājagṛha (VIII, 231). The Kālasilā was perhaps no other than what is called the site of Guṇasīla-caitya in this text. The settlement of Kollāga and the village of Bālaka at some distance from Nālandā were places that became scenes of early actions of Gosāla, the leader of the Ājīvikas, who met Mahāvīra first in Rājagṛha.¹