History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.19

c23.s1.19

The *Sūtra* shows that, whatever the correct total of the *kammas* according to Ājīvika doctrine, they were types of action affecting the individual soul in its transmigration, which each must perform in regular order (*aṇupuvveṇaṃ khavaittā*). On the higher level of truth they were not causal factors, but from the relative viewpoint they had to be taken into account.