State two important causes for the rise of Jainism and Buddhism.
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1. The Vedic philosophy had lost its original purity and in the sixth century B.C. it was reduced to a bundle of cumbrous rituals. The rites and ceremonies were painfully elaborate and awfully expensive. The common man developed a great dislike for these rituals.
2. The sacrifices prescribed by the Vedas had assumed a cumbrous shape. They were very complicated and a source of wastage of time, energy and money
3. The caste system had become rigid and brutal. There were strict restrictions on food, drinks and marriage. Interchange of caste was impossible. A person of the low caste had a miserable life. Buddhism and Jainism offered them an honoured place.
4. The Vedic religion had become very complex and degenerated into superstitions, dogmas and rituals. The Vedic mantras were unintelligible and beyond the intellect of the average person. A congeries of conflicting theories created a chaos and the common man was in a dilemma not knowing which way to turn.
5. The supremacy of the Brahmins created unrest. They had lost the old ideals and were no longer leading pure and holy life full of knowledge. Instead, they created intellectual confusion and dominated every aspect of the life of the Aryans.
6. All the religious treatises were written in Sanskrit which was the language of the elite and not the masses. Mahavira and the Buddha, on the contrary, explained to the people in simple intelligible spoken Pali or Prakrit, the language of the common man at that time.
These evils and ills led to grow discontent among the masses who aspired for a change. Several leading teachers raised their voice against these shortcomings. The Pali texts refer to sixty- two and Jain texts to 200 such movements, big and small, of which only two (Jainism and Buddhism) survived.
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2. The sacrifices prescribed by the Vedas had assumed a cumbrous shape. They were very complicated and a source of wastage of time, energy and money
3. The caste system had become rigid and brutal. There were strict restrictions on food, drinks and marriage. Interchange of caste was impossible. A person of the low caste had a miserable life. Buddhism and Jainism offered them an honoured place.
4. The Vedic religion had become very complex and degenerated into superstitions, dogmas and rituals. The Vedic mantras were unintelligible and beyond the intellect of the average person. A congeries of conflicting theories created a chaos and the common man was in a dilemma not knowing which way to turn.
5. The supremacy of the Brahmins created unrest. They had lost the old ideals and were no longer leading pure and holy life full of knowledge. Instead, they created intellectual confusion and dominated every aspect of the life of the Aryans.
6. All the religious treatises were written in Sanskrit which was the language of the elite and not the masses. Mahavira and the Buddha, on the contrary, explained to the people in simple intelligible spoken Pali or Prakrit, the language of the common man at that time.
These evils and ills led to grow discontent among the masses who aspired for a change. Several leading teachers raised their voice against these shortcomings. The Pali texts refer to sixty- two and Jain texts to 200 such movements, big and small, of which only two (Jainism and Buddhism) survived.
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