Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s7.1

v2.c35.s7.1

Bhavya and Vinītadeva enlist the Haimavatas as a branch of the Mahāsanghikas (Group I Schools) while Vasumitra remarks that the principal doctrines of this School were the same as those of the Sarvāstivādins.⁴ He adds that the original (*mūla*) Sthaviravāda changed its name to Haimavata.⁵ In the Ceylonese chronicles, however, the Hemavatikas are counted as one of the later sects, which came into existence some time after the appearance of the first eighteen schools. In view of these con-