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Šramagic impact of Brahmāryan forces. Buddha consiRevivalism dered that the old śramaņic way is not effective to meet the new situation. He evolved a new technique out of the best elements of the two that appealed him most. It succeeded in the begining. It also spread beyond the frontiers of Bhārata as it imbibed the spirit of Brāhmaṇical laxity and adaptiveness. Buddhism played the role of the Religion of Spiritual Revivalism. Later Buddhism tended more and more towards Brāhmaṇism. Buddha was accepted as an Avatāra of Brāhmaṇical hierarchy of the Descent of Personal Brahma. Buddhism in Bhārata finally merged in Brāhmaṇism though it exists as an independent powerful religion in other parts of the world.
The new forces were giving newer shape to the Aryan Tribalism. The family was becoming more and more
independent. The families of ruling classes Religion-A Materialistic were amassing more and more private wealth Adjunct
in agriculture and industry and this process was greatly accelerated owing to free or almost free labour of the serfs and slaves recruited from the original subject population. Women were segregated to the home. The private mode of production displaced the communal mode of internal and international trade and commerce, and brought in the era of private trade and commerce. New trade, internal and international, was getting to become the exclusive concern of the private individuals. The tribal society had no use of it. The tribal chiefs and their followers in the beginning and common merchants and traders monopolised them as their private concerns. The institution of private property now was hardening and becoming more important. The aristocrats and the oligarchs were the new growing classes who were fastening their strangle-hold on the growing private economy of the country. The powerful
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