The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s4.1

c10.s4.1

The Śākyan milieu is, in the first place, semi-Vedic or semi-Brāhmaṇic, representing the phases of culture-contacts between the so-called Aryans or Brāhmaṇized Indians and non-Aryans (or non-Brāhmaṇized Indians)⁷ as well as, to a certain extent, the continuations of perhaps neglected aspects of Vedic culture. In Śākya's life and thought as well as in those of the Śākyan missionaries and householders Vedic ideology cannot therefore be entirely overlooked.