Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta

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Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta (Pāli). The leader of a sect of sceptics (Amarāvikkhepikas), and one of the six heretical teachers whose doctrines are described in the Sāmañña-phala Sutta (see SAMAṆAS). As a way of indicating his total scepticism, he is said to have used the method of denying truth-claims in any logical form they could be presented.