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Ajīva

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 262 words | Copyright

Ajīva (Skt. ‘not jīva’, i.e. ‘not living’). In Jainism the insentient constitution of the physical universe which forms one of the two major divisions of all existing things, the other being jīva (the sentient soul).

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