With the lame and illogical excuse that they were useful as discipline, though unessential in reality, they were retained by the Brahman priest.

Not so by the Jain; still less so by the Buddhist.
In the era in which arose the public revolt against the dogmatic teaching of the Brahman there were more sects than one that have now passed away forgotten.

The eastern part of India, to which appertain the later part of the Catapatha Br[=a]hmana and the schismatic heresies, was full of religious and philosophical controversy.

The great heretics were not innovators in heresy.

The Brahmans permitted, encouraged, and shared in theoretical controversy.