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[Bharatvarsh2]

They say that buddhism ,upanishadism,bhagavatism,lokayata(Charvaka)was against ritual sacrifice(especially animal sacrifice),caste-system ,costely rituals,earthly pleasure(except lokayata),brahman authority.

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They claim that brahmans slowly infiltrated in above movements and introduce in the sacred texts the pro-caste atitude,costly puja(replacing sacrifice),guru unquestioned authority (replacing brahman unquestioned command).

Charvaka was a materalist who had no use for any of the scriptures.



If Brahmins really wanted to suppress him they would have persecuted him and destroyed his writings yet nothing of the sort happened, fragments of them have come down to us.



His movement was a failure and never became popular with the masses, instead of accepting that fact the Indian atheists want to repeat the mullah-missionary propaganda of making the Brahmins the scapegoats for everything.



Buddhism was not against "caste system" whatever that means. According to the earliest recorded sayings of Buddha he was quiet proud of his Kshatriya varna and even advocated incest to preserve it's purity.



This totally false view of the Buddha as a social reformer is a modern construct, especially made popular by Ambedkar. Koenraad Elst discusses this in detail in one of his books (I think in "Who is a Hindu") and shows why this is false.



After all Buddhism didn't concern itself with any largescale social reform in China or feudal Japan or Tibet.



In Japan without any Brahmins untouchability was practiced against a subgroup known as Burakumin. I bet these illiterate idiots don't know about that.



The Sinhalese who have been Thervada Buddhists for a long time still have "castes" (i.e endogamous groups) like Goyigama etc without any Brahmins among them.



Animal sacrifice is a practice today maintained not by Brahmins but by the so called "lower" castes. The Brahmins have long ago took to using substitutes for real animals in their yagna's but they never imposed their views about vegetarianism and animal sacrifice on the rest of the Hindus tyranically like Ashoka tried to do.



In the South goats are sacrificed to local goddesses like Poleramma, Maisamma etc and very few Brahmins visit these temples let alone officiate as priests there. The priests are usually non brahmin. In Nepal too the Gurkhas sacrifice buffalo's to the goddess.



It's quiet telling that these supposed rationalists praise Ashoka who imposed his values about animal sacrifice on the rest of the population while denigrating Brahmins who minded their own business when it came to the local goddesses and customs of other castes. If Brahmins had tried to forcibly ban animal sacrifice then these same "rationalists" would use that as evidence for Brahmin suppression of "lower caste culture".