History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.21
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.21
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c23.s1.21
*A n t a r a - k a p p a*. Lesser periods within the *kappa* or aeon. Buddhaghosa points out that there are actually sixty-four *antarakappas* to each *kappa*, whereas Makkhali allowed only sixty-two. Either Ājīvika chronometry differed in this particular from that of the Buddhists, or an error crept into the text at an early date.