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pretentions. The Brahmanas found that, while it was more possible
to revive the Vedic cult, it was quite feasible to re-establish their
waning power, infact to make their supremacy as a hieratic caste
secure once for all. The caste system became rigid, learning became
the monopoly of the hereditary caste of priets. The Brahmana, the
custodian of learning by diligent teaching and preaching, divided
and subdivided the various ethical groups with whom he had
dealings, into endless closed castes all looking upto him. Buddhism
was a protest against the harmful influence of this degmerate
sacerdotalism. For the non-Brahmanas had slowly been gathering
force and were becoming self conscious and relief relient and
indisposed to put up any further with the overwhelming spiritual
pride extreme exclusiveness, and all around domination of the
Brahmana. They had though intimate contact in the course of ages,
seen through him and the hallownesss of his pretensions. The
gathering force of a reformation found their spokesman in Buddha,
as they had earlier found in Rishabhadeva, the first founder of
Jainism. Buddha again denounced the flowery words of the Vedas
which misled people from the path of righteousness, as his great
predecessor, Krsna had done and preached the law of universal
love and harmlessness Ahimsa.
The earlier and more traditional list of the ten incarnations
of Lord Visnu, includes Buddha as the ninth, unlike the later and
more sectarian list which has Balarama instead of Buddha. The
understanding is that Balarama is only a partial Avatara