The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s9.6

c9.s9.6

The Brahmanizers of the Vedic complex succeeded in Brahmanizing the Vrātya among many other non-Brahmanic elements in Eastern India as elsewhere. But they failed to adapt themselves adequately to the racial and regional features such as ultimately found self-expression in the "eightfold path of the Aryan" as unfolded by Sākya the Buddha (*Dīgha-Nikāya, Sutta* 22).³³