Pāli Dictionary

ājīvaka

āprefixjīvrootakasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

jīv1live

general

  • an Ājīvaka; a naked ascetic belonging to the non-Buddhist renunciant sect founded by Makkhali Gosāla

  • MN 26

    evaṃ vutte, bhikkhave, upako ājīvako hupeyya'p'āvuso'ti

  • AN 6.57

    tatr'idaṃ, bhante, pūraṇena kassapena sukk'ābhijāti paññattā, ājīvakā ājīvakiniyo.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

ajīvakā
  1. ajī

    she-goat

  2. vakāvaka

    a wolf

najīvakā
  1. na

    not; no; neither; nor (negative particle; also as negative prefix in compounds)

  2. jīvakājīvaka

    Jīvaka (Komārabhacca), physician of the Buddha; a great lay disciple foremost in devotion to an individual

Encyclopedia

Ājīvakā
Otherapproximate

  • A sect of naked ascetics who followed Makkhali Gosāla and observed a strict code of rules on food and conduct, regarded in Buddhist texts as among the least effective of the era’s rival teachings.

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