History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c25.s3.1

c25.s3.1

It has already been suggested that two schools of thought or sub-sects existed within the Dravidian Ājīvika community. The first retained, with modifications, the seven element theory of the *Sāmañña-phala Sutta*.³ As far as we can gather it did not remember Pūraṇa Kassapa. In its later stages it seems to have adopted orthodox terminology,¹ and when we last hear of it it is apparently in the process of assimilation with Jainism.² This school is that referred to in Maṇimēkalai and in Civañāṉa-cittiyār.