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² The Ājīvikas were not Vaishnavas, as has been supposed (Bhandarkar, ‘Epigraphic Notes and Questions’, in *J. Bo. R. A. S.*, vol. xx, 1902; and *Ind. Ant.*, 1912, pp. 90, 286). See also the summary of the doctrines of the sect in the *Sāmaññaphala Sutta*, transl. by Rhys Davids, *Dialogues of the Buddha* (1899, p. 71), and Hoernle's exhaustive article, *s.v.* in *Encycl. Religion and Ethics*, vol. i (1908). The Ājīvikas were the forerunners of the Digambara Jains, and practically identical with them. See *J. R. A. S.*, 1913, pp. 669–74.