makkhali

Updated: November 4, 2024

Yet it was modelled on existing institutions and the Vinaya Pitaka itself represents him as prescribing the observance of times and seasons, not so much because he thought it necessary as because the laity suggested that he would do well to follow the practice of the Titthiya schools. By this phrase we are to understand the adherents of Makkhali Gosâla, Sâñjaya Belaṭṭhiputta and others.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1

He had relations with Makkhali Gosâla and his disciples disputed with the Buddhists but it does not appear that he himself ever met Gotama. He died at the age of seventy-two at Pâvâ near Râjagaha. Only one of his principal disciples, Sudharman, survived him and a schism broke out immediately after his death.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1

Similarly Pakudha Kaccâyana states that "when a sharp sword cleaves a head in twain" the soul and pain play a part similar to that played by the component elements of the sword and head. The most important of these teachers was Makkhali Gosâla.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1

But determinism, fatalism, and the uselessness of effort formed part of the paradoxical teaching of Makkhali Gosala reported in the Pitakas and therefore well known.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1