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Notes
243 7 important and 7 animportant dreams. There are 8400000 great periods during which both fools and wise alike, wanderipg in transmigration, shall at last make an end of pain. Though the wise should hope that by some particular virtue he may make his karman matare which is not yet matore,or thongh the fool should hope by the same means to get rid of karman that has matured, neither of them can do it. The pleasure and pain, mea. sured out as it is, cannot be altered in the course of trans: migration; there can be neither increase por decrease thereof, neither excess nor deficiency. Jūst as a ball of string, when it is cast forth, will spread out just as far as and no further than it can unwind, so both fools and wise aliko wandering in transmigration exactly for the alloted term, shall then and only then make an end of pain. This exposition of the system as given in the Digha Nikāya, is a concise one, but it tells us that the classification of beings into five as possessing one, two, three, four and five sense-organs, and six classes of beings in sk different colours, show & marked resemblance to the Jain system. There are other details such as reanimation and eight finalities (ar SATS) which can be easily gathered from the extract of the ware given in the second appendix. As regards their peculisr customs, the Majjhima Nikāya xxxvi, gives us some information.
Their practices In the Majjhima Nikāya sxxvi and Digha Nikāga we get a description of the practices of the Ajīvika mendicants from the mouth of their opponents. "They discard all olothing; they dispense with all decent habits; they lick their food ont. of
