History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s6.19
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c12.s6.19
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c12.s6.19
This very plausible explanation of the strange list is accepted with modifications by Hoernle. "The *raison d'être* of this curious doctrine," he writes ". . . is that the dubious death of their master was felt by his disciples to require investment with some kind of rehabilitating glamour."⁴