Ajiva

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Ajiva

WP, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #9: Right View, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans, pp134

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
¤j¨va	Lifestyle	livelihood	mode of livelihood	Lifestyle	livelihood	livelihood	livelihood	livelihood	livelihood	Livelihood	Living

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:
Ajiva: [a + jiva; Sk. ¤j¨va] livelihood, mode of living, living, subsistence, D I.54; A III.124 (parisuddha^-); Sn 407 (^- = parisodhayi = micch¤jiva? hitva samm¤jiva? eva pavattayi SnA 382), 617; Pug 51; Vbh 107, 235; Miln 229 (bhinna^-); Vism 306 (id.); DhsA 390; Sdhp 342, 375, 392. Esp. freq. in the contrast pair samm¤--¤j¨va & micch¤--a^- right mode & wrong mode of gaining a living, e. g. at S II.168 sq.; III.239; V.9; A I.271; II 53, 240, 270; IV.82; Vbh 105, 246. See also magga (ariya??hangika). --parisuddhi purity or propriety of livelihood Miln 336; Vism 22 sq., 44; DhA IV.111. --vipatti failure in method of gaining a living A I.270. --sampad¤ perfection of (right) livelihood A I.271; DA I.235. Ajivaka (& ^-ika) [¤j¨va + ka, orig. "one finding his living" (scil. in a peculiar way); cp. BSk. ajivika Divy 393, 427] an ascetic, one of the numerous sects of non--buddhist ascetics. On their austerities, practice & way of living see esp. DhA II.55 sq. and on the whole question A. L. Basham, Hist. & Doctrines of the Ajivikas, 1951. -- (a) ¤j¨vaka: Vin I.291; II.284; IV.74, 91; M I.31, 483: S I.217; A III.276, 384; J I.81, 257, 390. -- (b) ajivika: Vin I.8; Sn 381 (v. l. BB. ^-aka). --savaka a hearer or lay disciple of the ¤j¨vaka ascetics Vin II 130, 165; A I.217.
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