| But the literature, Pali and Sanskrit, Buddhist and Brahmanical, shows that non-monarchical forms of government were omnipresent. |
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| For the period preceding the Buddha we have the Sanskrit texts of the Brahmanical tradition, the Brahmanas and Upanishads. |
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| Brahmanical motifs can be found in the oldest Buddhist texts, using them to introduce and explain Buddhist ideas. |
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| The Senas were staunch promoters of Brahmanical Hinduism and laid the foundation of Bengali Hinduism. |
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| Buddhist remains of 8th Century AD and the Brahmanical remains of later period make it an interesting day excursion. |
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| Buddhism declined, though many of its ideas, and even the Buddha himself, were absorbed into certain Brahmanical traditions. |
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| As this instance is concerned with family and clan, it raises the question as to whether this use of the vocative is attested in contemporaneous Brahmanical literature. |
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| The Naga cult, one of the earliest cults of India, had followers belonging to Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jain faiths, and may have been popular in this region in the past. |
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| Matthew Sayers, on the other hand, pours cold water on the received wisdom that the Brahmanical association with the region predated the life of the Buddha. |
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| The Sutra texts and the Jatakas completely rule out animal killing whereas in Vedic and Brahmanical texts, animal slaughter is not considered intrinsically wrong at all. |
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| In the Pali Canon, the Buddha uses many Brahmanical devices. |
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