Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s5.19

c11.s5.19

**Position of Magadha.** Farther off from the old centres of Vedic culture than the Kosalas and Videhas stood the Magadhas to whom along with the Aṅgas in the farther east and the Gandhāris¹ and Mūjavants in the far north-west fever is wished away, as we have seen, in a well-known passage of the Atharvaveda [v, 22, 14]. That Magadha Brahmins were held in light esteem is evident from other passages in Vedic literature [e.g. *Vāja. Saṁ.*, xxx, 5, 22], but the reason for it is their imperfect brahminization and not, as surmised by Weber, the success of Buddhism in their country.