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Indian philosophy.
Believed to have been
founded in the 5th
century BCE by
Makkhali Gosāla, it was a Śramaṇa
movement and a
major rival of
Vedic religion,...
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Makkhali Gosala (Pāli; BHS:
Maskarin Gośāla; Jain
Prakrit sources:
Gosala Mankhaliputta) or
Manthaliputra Goshalak (b.
about 523 BCE) was an
ascetic ajivika...
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declaring that he had
previously asked six
teachers (Pūraṇa K****apa,
Makkhali Gosāla,
Ajita Kesakambala,
Pakudha Kaccāyana, Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta and Sañjaya...
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century BC in the
region of Magadha. He was
contemporaneous with Mahavira,
Makkhali Gosala,
Ajita Kesakambali and the Buddha, and was a
proponent of the ajñana...
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founders of schools, and po****rly
regarded as saints, like Pūraṇa K****apa,
Makkhali Gosāla,
Ajita Kesakambalī,
Pakudha Kaccāyana,
Sanjaya Belatthiputta and...
- was also the age of
influential thinkers like Mahavira, Pūraṇa K****apa,
Makkhali Gosāla,
Ajita Kesakambalī,
Pakudha Kaccāyana, and Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta...
- materials. The
caves were used by
ascetics from the
Ajivika sect,
founded by
Makkhali Gosala, a
contemporary of
Gautama Buddha, the
founder of Buddhism, and...
- universe. In
ancient India, the Ājīvika
school of
philosophy founded by
Makkhali Gosāla (around 500 BCE),
otherwise referred to as "Ājīvikism" in Western...
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highlight that it was a
suburb of Rājagṛha. Mahāvīra is said to have had met
Makkhali-gosāla, the
leader of the Ājīvakas, for the
first time at Nālandā. Jaina...
- soul,
merit or demerit. In the Pali Canon,
Purana (along with the
ascetic Makkhali Gosala) is
identified as an ahetuvadin, "denier of a cause" (of merit)...
