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University of Calcutta. Journal of the Department of Letters

1920

Problems—The further development of Ajivika religion the process of Aryan colonisation in India the spread of Aryan culture the final extinction of the sect resulting from gradual transformation or absorption of the Ajivika into the Digambara JaiTTa the Shivaite and others ; other causes of the decline of the faith ; the influence of Ajivika religion and philosophy on.Ta in ism Buddhism and [...] The third leader of the Ajivikas and the greatest exponent of their religio-philosophy in the time of Buddha -Gotama was Makkhali Gosala who is often mentioned as the second in the Buddhist list of six heretical teachers.' In the first four Nikayas and in the most of the Pali. [...] I have to premise therefore that the pre-Makkhodi history of the Ajivikas is the history of a formative period during which they brought about a radical change in the religious life of ancient India by the modification of certain rules and views of the hermits and by the gradual differentiation of their standpoint from that of others. [...] The creative genius of the older Upanisad period the period of the ciranyakas and the.Brahman Upanisa.cls was followed by a new spirit of free-thinking and sophism under the influence of which the intuitional philosophy of the Upanisad itself became sectarian at the hands of the Brahman waderers a chaotic state of conflicting ideas and religious sentiments when philosophy failed to provide a [...] The iNfahasibanmla Stipa which lays the scene in a forest-grove in the western suburb of Vesali embodies a more detailed analysis and elaborate discussion of the principles and practices of the Njtivikas and this older account in the Aajjhima confirms as will be shown anon the :Tains account in the Bhagavati in many important phases of i.jivikisin as it developed after the Nirvana of Gosdl
humanities general
Pages
447
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120022
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
The Ajivikas a Short History of their Religion and Philosophy
1-80 unknown view
Romic Calendrical Beginnings
81-140 H. Haqnnah view
The Throne of Ptah and our Arctic Home
141-179 H. Hannah view
The Communal Organisation of Industry as the regional type of India
180-272 Radahkamal Mukherjee view
Platonism in Spenser
273-443 Mohinimohon Bhattacharyya view

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