AjIvika · masculine
Ājīvika (neuter) (or ājīvikā f.?) [from ājīva] sustenance of life, livelihood, living Vibh 379 (°bhaya) Miln 196 (the same); Pv-a 274, and in phrase ājīvikāpakata being deprived of a livelihood, without a living M I 463 = S III 93 (Text reads jīvikā pakatā) = It 89 (reads ājīvikā pakatā) = Miln 279.
ājīvika , ( 1 ) m. (= Pali id. ) = prec. : MSV ii.83.19 ; LV 380.12 ( v.l. °aka); Divy 393.20 ; 427.7, 8 (here identified with nirgrantha, 9); ajīvika, with a- m.c. , Śikṣ 332.1 ( vs ); ( 2 ) nt. (= Pali id. , Skt. ājīva), (means of) livelihood, profession : °bhayam (= Pali id. ), danger due to profession or means of livelihood , Dharmas 71 ; ( 3 ) °ikā , f. (= Pali id. ) = (2): °bhaya- (as under prec. ), Gv 264.9 ; Śikṣ 296.5 ; Dbh.g. 2(338).10 °kā-maraṇa-'kīrty (dvandva; -bhaya is understood from prec. line with all three items).
a naked ascetic (belonging to the community founded by Makkhali Gosāla)
(masc, masc, agent, from ājīva) ascetic; member of a renunciant sect; (comm) naked ascetic kind of non-Buddhist ascetics [lit.] (following a specific code of) livelihood Construction: ā + √jīv + ika