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Buddha, and it was the Brāhmaṇas who migrated into this cultural region. The Vedicism we have today, including its upavasatha, developed in the context of Śramaņism-not the other way around.
This seems like a radical proposition, but I would suggest that it only seems that way because of our consistent and untested presumption that the Vedas are primary. That assumption has a history, and it is a recent one. When the supremacy of the Vedas is held to one side, perhaps a clearer, more accurate picture of ancient India and her history may emerge, as I hope it may have begun to here.
Abbreviations
ĀS
Ācārānga Sūtra
JSK
Jaina Siddhānta Kośa
KĀ
Kārtikeyānupreksā
KS
Kalpasūtra
MDhs
Mānavadharmaśāstra
MIA
Middle Indo-Aryan
PSM
Pāiasaddamahannavo
RKS
Ratnakarandaśrāvakācāra
SK
Sūtrakstānga
References:
1. See Bronkhorst 2007. 2. See, for example, Olivelle's interpretation of varņāśramadharma in
The Aśrama System (2000) and elsewhere, demonstrating that the renunciate traditions are encapsulated and agglomerated onto Hinduism in the latter 'Forest-dweller' and 'Wandering Ascetic' stages described in the dharmaśāstras; also Bronkhorst's Two
Sources of Vedic Tradition (1993). 3. See Chapters 3 and 5 of Haskett 2010; also, Schonthal 2006
convincingly shows that the uposatha should not have descended
