History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c16.s3.13

c16.s3.13

que dureront la lune et le soleil.”¹ Bühler cautiously avoided any attempt at a transcription of the doubtful letters.² Senart’s translation will not stand in the light of the more recent reproduction employed by Hultzsch, whose interpretation is not inconsistent with the remains of the text. It might be expected that some reference to the Ājīvikas would occur in the third inscription on the analogy of the first and second, but this does not seem to be the case; no trace of the relevant akṣaras can be found in its defaced portions. It seems quite reasonable to believe, however, that the Ājīvikas occupied the third cave, as they did the other two.