pre-buddhistic

“Of all the legal S [= u] tra-writers Gautama is oldest, and perhaps is pre-buddhistic.”

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“This is as near to heresy as pre-buddhistic Brahmanism permitted itself to come.”

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“The same freedom in regard to ascetics as occurs in other S [= u] tra works is to be found in this author, not in the more suspicious final chapters, but in that part of the work which is accepted as oldest, [22] and agrees with the data found in the Br [= a] hmanas, where the pre-buddhistic monk is called”

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