History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c10.s2.26

c10.s2.26

Further confusion is to be found in a passage in the *Petavatthu*,² where a verse paraphrase of parts of the doctrines ascribed in the *Sāmañña-phala Sutta* to Makkhali, Pūraṇa, Ajita, and Pakudha, together with certain new teachings which are to be found among the doctrines of the later Ājīvikas, are placed in the mouth of the peta, Nandaka. Similar verse passages occur in *Mahānārada-kassapa Jātaka*,³ where various doctrines elsewhere ascribed to the six heretics are spoken by the ascetic Guṇa.