Monday, September 25, 2023

Brahmanical

In the Pali Canon, the Buddha uses many Brahmanical devices. For example, in Samyutta Nikaya 111, Majjhima Nikaya 92 and Vinaya i 246 of the Pali Canon, the Buddha praises the Agnihotra as the foremost sacrifice and the Gayatri mantra as the foremost meter:

aggihuttamukhā yaññā sāvittī chandaso mukham.

Sacrifices have the agnihotra as foremost; of meter the foremost is the Sāvitrī.[102]

Paralleling Brahmanical developments, the Buddha used the language of the three-fire Śrauta system to shift the emphasis of practice to inner purity and sacrifice, instead of outer purity and sacrifice.[103]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Use_of_Brahmanical_motifs
https://freeglobaluniversity.blogspot.com/search/label/Ambedkar

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