ABSTRACT
Goœâla is reported to have regularly sojourned at the pottery workshop (kumbhakârâvaòe) of the potter-woman Hâlâhalâ, which was also a regular place of penance for him and his ascetic followers. According to Jinadâsa-gaòi even the place where he attained the state of perfection, or Jinahood,214 and where the funerary rites were performed after his death was the pottery workshop in Œrâvastî.215 In accounts related to the Âjîvikas and Goœâla we repeatedly come across mentions of pottery, potters, potters’ workshops etc. Also the social milieu surrounding him, his followers and supporters was to a considerable extent related to the potter class, including potters themselves, pottery traders or pottery workshop owners, such Saddâlaputra (Saddâlaputta) of Polâsapura.
