Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.337

c8.337

The Bhāgavata Purāṇa (IX, 13, 27) points out that the Maithilas were generally skilled in the knowledge of ātman. Brahminism was prevalent in Videha in the Buddha's time (Majjhima, II, 74ff., 133ff.). The Buddhist Nikāyas are silent as to the Buddha's missionary work in Videha and Mithilā. Only in the Majjhima Nikāya we find that the Master stayed at the mango-grove of Makhādeva at Mithilā and converted a distinguished Brahmin teacher named Brahmāyu.