Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Ancient India: Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings

Question:

Out of the given options, choose the incorrect information about the Ajivikas.

1. Ajivikas are also known as fatalists.

2. Ajita Kesakambalai belonged to Ajivika sect.

3. Ajivika monks and nuns took five vows.

4. Ajivikas believed that everything is predetermined.

Options:

1 and 2

2 and 3

3 and 4

1 and 4

Correct Answer:

2 and 3

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - 2 and 3

Statements 2 and 3 are incorrect:
2. Ajita Kesakambalai belonged to Ajivika sect is wrong as he belonged to Lokayatas.
3. Ajivika monks and nuns took five vows is incorrect as it is Jain monks who took 5 vows.

Makkhali Gosala belonged to the tradition of the Ajivikas. They have often been described as fatalists: those who believe that everything is predetermined.

Ajita Kesakambalai belonged to the tradition of the Lokayatas, usually described as materialists.

Jaina monks and nuns took five vows: to abstain from killing, stealing and lying; to observe celibacy; and to abstain from possessing property.