History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion
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Lala Sundar Lal Jain Research Series
Book: 17Author
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
ISBN
8120812042, 9788120812048
Length
xx+316p., Maps; Plates; Abbreviation; Bibliography; Notes; References; Index; 23cm.
Subjects
The book presents the history and the Doctrines of the Ajivikas who formed a third heretical sect besides the sect of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism and that of Mahavira Vardhamana, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of the Jainas. The three heterodox sects react against the ritualistic creed of the Vedists.
The cult of Ajivikas was founded by Makkhali Gosal, the contemporary of Mahavira Vardhamana, on the basis of strict determinism with a belief in the ...
