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भगवती सूत्रम् सः ८ उः ५
आजीवियसमणस्स णं अयमठे अक्खीणपडिभोइणौ सव्वे सत्ता। से हंता छेता भेत्ता लुपित्ता विलंपित्ता उद्दवइत्ता आहारं आहारेति। तत्थ खलु इमे दुवालस आजीवियोवासगा भवंति तं जहा-ताले तालपलंबे उविहे संविहे अवविहे उदए णामुदए णम्मुदए अणुवालए संखवालए अयंबले कायरएइच्चेए दुवालसं आजीविओवासगा अरिहंतदेवतागा अम्मापिउसुस्सूसगा पंचफल पडिक्कंता तं जहा-उबेरहिं वडेहिं बोरेहिं सतरेहिं पिलकखूहिं पलंडुल्हसुणकंदमूलविवज्जगा अपिल्लंछिएहिं अणक्कभिण्णेहिं गोणेहिं तसपाणविवज्जिएहिं वितेहिं वित्तिं कप्पेमाणा विहरंति । एए वि ताव एवं इच्छंति किमंग ! पुण जे इमे समणोवासगा भवंति जेसिं णो कप्पंति इमाइं पण्णरस कम्मादाणाई सयं करेत्तए वा कारवेत्तए वा करत वा अण्णं ण समणुजाणेत्तए। तं जहाइंगालकम्मे वणकम्मे साडीकम्मे भाडीकम्मे फीडीकम्मे दंतवाणिज्जे लक्खवाणिज्जे केसवाणिज्जे रसवाणिज्जे विसवाणिज्जे जंतपीलणकम्मे णिल्छणकम्मे दवग्गिदावणया सरदहतलागपरिसोसणया असईपोसणया। इच्चेए समणोवासगा सुक्का सुक्काभिजाइया भवित्ता कालमासे कालं किच्चा अण्णयरेसु देवलोएसु देवत्ताए उववत्तारो भवति ।
The ajivika way of reasoning is as follows: Every living organism lives on by eating some form of life. So they beat, cut, pierce, scissor, peel, even kill others to acquire food. The following twelve sects have been identified as the followers of the ajivika way : Tala, Talapralamba, Udvidha. Samvidha, Avavidha, Udaya, Namodaya Narmodaya, Anupalaka, Sankhapālaka, Ayambula and Kātara. Gosālaka is their prophet and lawgiver. They are obedient to their parents. They eat not five types of fruit, viz., umbara fruit, banyan fruit, berry, sattara fruit and pipal fruit. They take not onion, garlic and other roots. They earn their livelihood with the help of oxen who have not been turned into bulls by castiation and by piercing of the nose, and injure not any mobile form of life. When even the followers of Gośālaka desist from causing injury to other living beings in earning their livelihood, then, what to speak of the followers of the śramana path who neither perform, nor order, nor approve the following fifteen professions : professions using fire, forest, management of vehicles, transport, plough and spade, teeth, bone and skin
