siha

Updated: August 24, 2026

We find him sitting by the sacred fire of a Brahman and discoursing, but not denouncing the worship carried on in the place. When he converted Siha , the general of the Licchavis, who had been a Jain, he bade him continue to give food and gifts as before to the Jain monks who frequented his house—an instance of toleration in a proselytizing teacher which is perhaps without parallel.

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