The church received many of these younger sons as priests.

Both Buddha and Mah[=a]v[=i]ra were, in fact, revolting adherents of the Brahmanic faith, but they were princes and had royalty to back them.
Nor in the Brahmanhood of Benares was Brahmanhood at its strongest.
The seat of the Vedic cult lay to the westward, where it arose, in the 'holy land,' which received the Vedic Aryans after they had crossed out of the Punj[=a]b.

With the eastward course of conquest the character of the people and the very orthodoxy of the priests were relaxed.

The country that gave rise to the first heresies was one not consecrated to the ancient rites.

Very slowly had these rites marched thither, and they were, so to speak, far from their religious base of supplies.