History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c22.s2.1

c22.s2.1

For the early Ājīvikas Niyati is the ruling principle of the cosmic process. This concept of process, of the slow evolution of all entities along rigidly determined lines, is clearly stated in the Pāli and Ardha-māgadhī sources. The universe is, in fact, a dynamic one. But the Tamil texts which treat of Ājīvikism show that other views existed.