History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c22.s1.15

c22.s1.15

Continuing his discussion of *niyativāda* Śilāṅka, with commendable impartiality, temporarily adopts the determinist attitude, and considers possible causes of the manifest inequalities of the world. "What then (is the cause)? Only Destiny. . . . Time is not the agent, for the variety of results (of effort) in the world is inconsistent with the uniformity of time. Variation in the effect arises from variation in the cause, not from uniformity." ¹