Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.789

v1.c6.789

Various teachings are attributed to them, *e.g.* that they recognised five kinds of brahmins—brahmasama, devasama, mariyāda, sambhinnama-riyāda, and brāhmaṇacaṇḍāla.⁴ These sages did not claim to have discerned and realised the five qualities—truth, austerities, chastity, study and munificence—specified by the brahmins for the attainment of merit and the achievement of what is right,⁵ though their followers behaved as if they did. Nor did they claim that they personally saw and knew that "here alone resides the truth and everything else is vain."⁶ In the Vimānavatthu Commentary it is said that the Buddha had realised those things of which these sages thought and for which they wished.⁷ (*Brahmacintitan ti brahmehi Aṭṭhakādīhi cintitam, pañcacak-khunā dittham.*)