Public Administration in Ancient India c22.19

c22.19

From about the fifth century A.D. Buddhism began to decline in India. Brahmanism, which had so far flourished side by side and in friendly relations with Buddhism, began now to receive greater encouragement at the hands of the rulers, some of whom even went the length of persecuting the more corrupt forms of the religion of the Buddha. The tenets of Jainism also became gradually more and more popular, and helped in a considerable degree to supplant the Buddhist doctrines.