History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c17.s5.20

c17.s5.20

Of these lexicographical references Hoernle notes only one, that of Halāyudha, who "enumerates a large number of names of the two Jain divisions, the Śvetāmbaras . . . and the Digambaras . . . The latter, he says, are also known as the Ājīva, which is only a shorter form of Ājīvika. . . It is evident now, from what has been said, that the terms Niggantha and Ājīvika denote the two Jaina orders which are known to us as Śvetāmbaras and Digambaras ".³