Explanation: Gosala met Mahavira for the first time in Nalanda and their friendship lasted for six years.

• They separated due to doctrinal differences. Gosala then went to Sravasti, where he was patronised by a rich potter woman called Halahala.
• He believed in the doctrine of reanimation, and criticised and ridiculed the severe austerities of the Vedic ascetics.
• Being rival sects, both the Buddhist and Jaina accounts portray Gosala as a person of vicious character.
• Sravasti was the headquarters of the Ajivika sect. The Ajivikas were naked ascetics.
• The basic principle of the Ajivikas was niyati or fate: they believed that nothing in this world could be changed as everything was predetermined.

Source: Tamil Nadu NCERT