Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s2.t1.10

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¹²⁸ Sūya 12.4-8 The Thā (8 607) gives the eight divisions of the akriyāvādins Eka-c-vādins (monists), Anegānt-vādins (pluralists), Miyatavādins (extensionists), Nimmitavādins (cosmogonists), Samucchedavādins (annihilationists), Nityavādins (eternalists), and Na santi Paralo-ka-vādins (materialists), cf the same method of classification in the Brahmajāla sutta of the Digha. (Barua Pre-Buddhist Indian Philosophy, p 197). In Buddhist works Pakudhakaccāyana’s doctrine is also called akriyāvāda (Law, Historical Gleanings p 33)