The skeptic position associated with Sanjaya Belatthiputta: on every ultimate question the answer given is that it neither is, nor is not, nor both, nor neither.
Ajnana is the skeptic position associated with Sanjaya Belatthiputta, whose reported answers evaded every formulation of the question; his rivals named the manner eel-wriggling. The position survives in the Samannaphala Sutta's report and in later Jain accounts, and it is recorded here as a reported position, with the same evidence caution as the rest of its cluster, because no Ajnana text of its own exists.
Sources
Primary
- The Buddhist Samannaphala Sutta's report of Sanjaya Belatthiputta, with later Jain accounts.
Secondary
- Accounts of the early skeptics in the Jain Sutrakritanga.
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