History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c17.s5.25

c17.s5.25

Hoernle's further suggestion, that the term *nirgrantha* implied only a Śvetāmbara Jaina, is quite unfounded. The evidence of Halāyudha¹ and Yādava,² both of whom include the *nirgrantha* in the same category as the *nagnāṭa*, should be adequate to disprove the theory. The term was obviously used for a Jaina of any type.