UPSC Prelims · 1994 · GS Paper I · Q16
"Live well, as long as you live. Live well even by borrowings, for, once cremated, there is no 'return." This rejection of after-life in an aphorism of the
- (A)Kapalika sect
- (B)Sunyavada of Nagarjuna
- (C)Ajivikas
- (D)Charvakas
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Answer: (D) Charvakas
- Subject
- History
- Chapter
- Ancient Indian Society, Economy & Religion
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