History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion (History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion)
Gosāla and the Ājīvika order, references in Buddhist, Jaina and Tamil texts and inscriptions, doctrine of niyati, later South Indian Ājīvikas.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. L. Basham
- Extent
- 2,480 passages, 112,507 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · London: Luzac 1951; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8 Flash · In copyright (A. L. Basham †1986); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 33 parts
- c2 Illustrations — 1 part
- c3 Maps — 1 part
- c4 Foreword by Dr. L. D. Barnett — 4 parts
- c5 Preface — 24 parts
- c6 Bibliography of Works Mentioned in the Text — 2 parts
- c7 Abbreviations — 2 parts
- c8 Part One: History of the Ājīvikas
- c9 Chapter I. Introduction — 1 part
- c10 Chapter II. The Six Heretics — 2 parts
- c11 Chapter III. Makkhali Gosāla and His Predecessors — 9 parts
- c12 Chapter IV — 33 parts
- c13 Chapter V. Pūraṇa and Pakudha — 3 parts
- c14 Chapter VI. The Early Ājīvika Community (I) — 6 parts
- c15 Chapter VII. The Early Ājīvika Community (II) — 6 parts
- c16 Chapter VIII. Ājīvikas in the Nanda and Maurya Periods — 3 parts
- c17 Chapter IX. Ājīvikas in Later Times — 6 parts
- c18 Chapter X. The Southern Ājīvikas — 3 parts
- c19 Appendix to Part I: The Iconoclast Ascetics of Kashmīr — 51 parts
- c20 Part Two: Doctrines of the Ājīvikas
- c21 Chapter XI. Ājīvika Scriptures — 3 parts
- c22 Chapter XII. Niyati — 26 parts
- c23 Chapter XIII. Ājīvika Cosmology — 5 parts
- c24 Chapter XIV. Other Doctrines of the Ājīvikas — 6 parts
- c25 Chapter XV. Conclusion — 4 parts
- c26 Index — 63 parts