History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c14.s2.16

c14.s2.16

Admittedly the preposition ā has more often the force of “until” than “as long as”, but “it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either including the object named or excluding it”,² and therefore this interpretation is by no means illegitimate.