nirgrantha (8367)

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nirgrantha
Entry 8367, Page 300, Col. 2
(nirgranTa, nirgranTa)
(nirgrantha¦, cf. next; Skt. id., Pali nigg°, a heretical monk, commonly assumed to mean a Jain; so clearly, nirgrantha-tīrthakara-Ṛṣabhaḥ nirgrantharūpī Mmk 45.27, text both times ndha for ntha; others, SP 276.3 (to be avoided by a Bodhisattva); LV 380.12; Mvy 3529; Bbh 244.6; Divy 154.4; 155.20; 262.9; 264.17; 270.7 ff.; often mentioned together with Ājīvika, and in Divy 427.2 f. apparently means the same as this, as indicated by line 7.)