History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c15.s4.10
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c15.s4.10
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c15.s4.10
The greatest support for Ājīvikism seems to have come from the industrial and mercantile classes. The Vinaya mentions one unnamed mahāmatta who was an adherent of the Ājīvikas,³ but with this and the other exceptions mentioned above all those Ājīvikas referred to in the Buddhist and Jaina texts whose caste affiliations are specified were of the trading classes.