History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c15.s5.5
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c15.s5.5
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c15.s5.5
Ājīvika laymen are depicted as cruel and deceitful. The lay Ājīvikas from a distant village who bought the daughter of a Sāvatthi prostitute as a wife for their son, through the intervention of the *bhikkhu* Udāyi, are said to have treated her like a slave, and would allow neither her mother nor the matchmaker to see her.³