History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c18.s2.17
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c18.s2.17
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c18.s2.17
The most valuable reference to Ājīvikas in Tamil literature is that contained in the anonymous Jaina poem Nīlakēci. This seems to have been written by an author who had read the Buddhist Maṇimēkalai, and wished to provide a Jaina counterpart to that work. But the poem is a step nearer to the fully developed study of various philosophical systems than Maṇimēkalai, wherein the philosophy is subordinate to the story.