History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c21.s2.44

c21.s2.44

3. The form hupeyya, as used in the words of the Ājīvika Upaka, "hupeyya āvuso",² which he believes was specifically an Ājīvika expression. In one version of the story the phrase occurs as huveyya pāvuso,³ from which Barua concludes that "the sounds p and v were interchangeable in the Ājīvika language"; and