[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951) › c19.35 # History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c19.35 History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c19.35 - **Language:** English ### [c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.35) In such circumstances it is not impossible that a group of Ājīvika ascetics found its way to Kashmir from the Deccan and obtained the confidence of the king, who was always ready to patronize the purveyors of novelties, and seems to have had a taste for the bizarre. On the other hand Bāṇa indicates the presence of \*nagn’-āṭas\* of some sort in Northern Panjāb or Kashmir some 450 years earlier,⁶ and the ascetics may have been an indigenous and previously insignificant group of Ājīvikas who rose to prominence as a result of Harṣa’s patronage. - [Previous: c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.34) - [Next: c19.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.36) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.35) · Pramāṇa