History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c24.s5.3

c24.s5.3

The distinctive characteristic of the Ājīvika system of epistemology, like that of the Trairāśika Jainas, was the division of propositions into three categories, in contrast to the orthodox Jaina system, which allowed seven. Some information on this system may be gathered from the commentaries to the *Nandi Sūtra* and to the *Samavāyāṅga*, which do not significantly differ:—