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was whether or not we were justified in taking life even for 
the purpose of food. We read in the Sutrakritanga that the 
Kritanga.® 
In the Kassapasthanada Sutta (Digha, Vol. 1) Buddha 
gives a general account of the Acelakas (naked ascetics). 
The same account is incorporated in the Anguttara Nikaya, 
Puggalapafifattiand other texts without any variation, which 
wearers of garments. This fragment can be compared with 
the Vaikkhanasadharmasutra also known az the Sramanaka 
sutra which is lost for ever, and which is frequently alluded 
to in the older Dharmasutras now extant. In other words 
cerned here. The Kesakamvalins were the wearers of blankets 
made up of hairs. As regards the Ajivika order founded by 
Nandavaccha, Kisasamkicca and Mokkhali Gosala. Buddha 
gives a separate account in the Mahasaccaka sutta of the 
Majjhima Nikaya (p. 238) which is really an abstract from the 
eneral account of the Acelakas above mentioned. The salient 
r 
ed a curious sense of freedom which led him not to obe 
another man’s command. He was accustomed to fasting for 
1 Jaina Sutras, pt. II, p. 418. Aupapatika Sutta, p. 74. (Edited by 
Leumann. 
2 Vol. I, p. 377. 3 Pt. II, pp. 414-417. 
