- Buddhism, and Jainism.
Ājīvikas were
organized renunciates who
formed discrete communities. The
precise identity of the
Ājīvikas is not well known, and...
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caves to the sect of the
Ajivikas, a sect of ascetics,
which flourished at the same time as
Buddhism and Jainism. The
words "
Ajivikas" were
later attacked...
- that the
Ajivikas performed severe penances and self-mortification as part of
their Tapas practice. A
mention of the
ascetic practices of
Ajivikas is found...
- Ashokavadana, the
Mauryan emperor Ashoka issued an
order to kill all the
Ajivikas (follower of nāstika or "heterodox"
schools of
Indian philosophy) in Pundravardhana...
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philosophies to
Ājīvikas.
According to the 2nd
century CE text Ashokavadana, the
Mauryan emperor Bindusara was a
patron of the
Ajivikas, and it reached...
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architecture of the
Ajivikas, an
ancient religious and
philosophical group of
India that
competed with
Jainism and
became extinct over time.
Ājīvikas were atheists...
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Ājīvikas believed in
absolute determinism,
absence of free will, and
called this niyati.
Everything in
human life and universe,
according to
Ajivikas...
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Ajivikas in the
secondary sources of
ancient Indian literature,
particularly those of
Jainism and
Buddhism which polemically criticized the
Ajivikas....
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Retrieved 29
November 2013. Balcerowicz,
Piotr (2016). "Determinism,
Ājīvikas, and Jainism".
Early Asceticism in India: Ājīvikism and Jainism. Routledge...
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Dasharatha is
known to have
dedicated three caves in the
Nagarjuni Hills to the
Ajivikas.
Three inscriptions at the
caves refer to him as "Devanampiya" and state...
