History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c17.s1.26

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Mahāyāna Buddhist literature refers to Ājīvikas in connection with its legends of the Buddha, but otherwise takes little note of them. The *Lalita Vistara* mentions them briefly in a list of ascetics which includes *carakas*, *parivrājakas*, *vṛddhaśrāvakas*, *gautamas*, and *nirgranthas*.² They are included in a similar list in the *Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka*,³ where it is stated that a Bodhisattva does not associate with them.