# Ajivika and Dharmic and Indic Religions: a Diptych comparison Schema version 1.0. Each panel stands in its own documented terms; the binding carries the site's analysis of how the two positions relate. ## 1. In its own words ### Ajivika The Ajivika school is extinct, and its founder Makkhali Gosala is known through Jain and Buddhist sources, not through any text of the school itself; its doctrine of niyati, strict fate, is likewise reported by rivals. The Ajivikas practised a severe asceticism for many centuries, received royal patronage, and carved caves in the Barabar hills that still stand, before the school faded from the record in the second millennium. - [Ajivika](/tree/ajivika) ### Dharmic and Indic Religions The grouping for the early Indian schools that stand outside the Vedic fold. In the centuries when the sramana movements were forming, teachers who rejected Vedic authority proposed accounts of the world that owe nothing to the sacrifice or the priesthood; the materialist, fatalist, and skeptic schools recorded here are the earliest of them, and each survives mainly in the reports of its rivals. - [Dharmic and Indic Religions](/tree/dharmic-and-indic-religions) ## 2. Scale and spread ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ## 3. Historical timeline ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ## 4. Sources of authority ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. 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Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ## 12. Science and technology posture ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ## 13. Internal diversity ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Coverage record created at intake; content not yet documented. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions - [Carvaka](/tree/carvaka) - [Ajivika](/tree/ajivika) - [Ajnana](/tree/ajnana) ## 14. Contributions ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ## 15. Internal critique ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ## 16. External critique and reply ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ## 17. Contested history ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. Evaluative coverage is scheduled; this slot populates through sourced, reviewed records. ## 18. What each says about the other ### Ajivika Coverage: not documented. This slot renders only when both directions stand populated and reviewed. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions Coverage: not documented. This slot renders only when both directions stand populated and reviewed. ## 19. What this comparison cannot settle ### Ajivika This comparison sets two self-descriptions side by side; it does not decide between them. A tradition is a living range of positions, and each panel renders the range this site has documented, which is not the whole of the tradition. Where a cell is marked not yet documented, the gap belongs to this site's documentation, not to the tradition. Questions of truth between the panels turn on premises the reader brings: what counts as evidence, what authority is recognized, and what a human life is for. The instrument's binding marks the site's own analysis of how the two panels relate; which panel is true is not the instrument's to settle. ### Dharmic and Indic Religions This comparison sets two self-descriptions side by side; it does not decide between them. A tradition is a living range of positions, and each panel renders the range this site has documented, which is not the whole of the tradition. Where a cell is marked not yet documented, the gap belongs to this site's documentation, not to the tradition. Questions of truth between the panels turn on premises the reader brings: what counts as evidence, what authority is recognized, and what a human life is for. The instrument's binding marks the site's own analysis of how the two panels relate; which panel is true is not the instrument's to settle. ## 20. Sources ### Ajivika - [Ajivika](/tree/ajivika) ### Dharmic and Indic Religions - [Dharmic and Indic Religions](/tree/dharmic-and-indic-religions) ## Sources - Ajivika: The Jain Bhagavati Sutra and the Buddhist Samannaphala Sutta, the rival sources that report the school. - Ajivika: A. L. Basham, History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas. - Dharmic and Indic Religions: The reports of the early schools in the Buddhist Samannaphala Sutta and the Jain Sutrakritanga. - Dharmic and Indic Religions: A. L. Basham, History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas.