History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c17.s5.22

c17.s5.22

This appears to be an over-simplification. The verse which, according to Hoernle, enumerates the titles of Śvetāmbaras, actually includes such broad general terms as *tapasvin*, *śānta*, *muni*, and even *liṅgin*, which probably refers to a Śaivite ascetic bearing a *liṅgam*. On the other hand the next verse, giving names of naked ascetics, contains the word *śramaṇa*, a term certainly used by the Śvetāmbaras and Buddhists as well as the Digambaras, and also *nirgrantha*, which term, on Hoernle's theory, specifically denoted the Śvetāmbara, as opposed to the Ājīvika or Digambara.