Definition of Ajivikas. Meaning of Ajivikas. Synonyms of Ajivikas

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Ajivikas. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Ajivikas and, of course, Ajivikas synonyms and on the right images related to the word Ajivikas.

Definition of Ajivikas

No result for Ajivikas. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Ajivikas from wikipedia

- Buddhism, and Jainism. Ājīvikas were organized renunciates who formed discrete communities. The precise identity of the Ājīvikas is not well known, and...
- caves to the sect of the Ajivikas, a sect of ascetics, which flourished at the same time as Buddhism and Jainism. The words "Ajivikas" were later attacked...
- Ashokavadana, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka issued an order to kill all the Ajivikas (follower of nāstika or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy) in Pundravardhana...
- that the Ajivikas performed severe penances and self-mortification as part of their Tapas practice. A mention of the ascetic practices of Ajivikas is found...
- movements, Ajivikas eventually ****imilated into Vaishnavism. The problems of time and change was one of the main interests of the Ajivikas. Their views...
- philosophies to Ājīvikas. According to the 2nd century CE text Ashokavadana, the Mauryan emperor Bindusara was a patron of the Ajivikas, and it reached...
- architecture of the Ajivikas, an ancient religious and philosophical group of India that competed with Jainism and became extinct over time. Ājīvikas were atheists...
- Ajivikas in the secondary sources of ancient Indian literature, particularly those of Jainism and Buddhism which polemically criticized the Ajivikas....
- Dasharatha is known to have dedicated three caves in the Nagarjuni Hills to the Ajivikas. Three inscriptions at the caves refer to him as "Devanampiya" and state...
- Barua, B.M. (1920). The Ajivikas. University of Calcutta. Basham, A.L. (2002) [1951]. History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas (2nd ed.). Delhi, India:...