The Ashram shifted to the banks of river Sabarmati on 17 June 1917.The new location of the Ashram according to mythology was the ashram site of Dadhichi Rishi who had donated his bones for a righteous war. Gandhi too was engaged in such a war through the weapon of nonviolence. It was located between a jail and a crematorium and Gandhi believed that a satyagrahi has to invariably go to either of these places.