[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Mauryan Polity](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932) › c11.t3.2 # The Mauryan Polity c11.t3.2 The Mauryan Polity c11.t3.2 - **Language:** English ### [c11.t3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c11.t3.2) "From the comparison which we have just instituted between the rules for the Brahmanic ascetic and those for the Jaina monk it will be apparent that the latter is but a copy of the former. It may be assumed that the Nirgrantha copied the Buddhist Bhikku who himself was but a copy of the Sannyāsin. This suggestion is not a probable one, for, there being a model of higher antiquity and authority, the Jainas would probably have conformed rather to it than to the less respected and second-hand model of their rivals, the Buddhists."¹ We see that the germs of dissenting sects like those of the Buddhists and the Jainas were contained in the institute of the fourth \*āśrama\*, and that the latter was the model of the heretical sects; therefore Buddhism and Jainism must be regarded "as religions developed out of Brahmanism, not by a sudden reformation, but prepared by a religious movement going on for a long time."² - [Previous: c11.t3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c11.t3.1) - [Next: c11.t3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c11.t3.3) - [Up: c11.t3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c11.t3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c11.t3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c11.t3.2) · Pramāṇa