History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.71
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.71
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c23.s1.71
*Paribbājaka*. Wandering mendicants, also to the number of 4,900. We do not believe that this means "sorts of mendicant", as Rhys Davids translates it, but rather that the soul will be reborn as a wandering ascetic 4,900 times in the course of its transmigration.