History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c25.s3.10

c25.s3.10

With the Ājīvikas that tendency may have manifested itself quite early, for it is already suggested in the Vāyu Purāṇa.⁷ As this branch of the sect decayed we may suggest that its members drew more and more closely to Vaiṣṇavism, with its similar doctrines of theism and avatāras. From Utpala’s commentary to Varāhamihira⁸ it seems that this process had commenced as early as the tenth century A.D.