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Another link: can see the writer develop the "ur-Shramana" mythology, but under another name. Again, note the year: 2008 -
ssubbanna.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/08/who-were-the-vratyas-the-searching-wanderers.htm
Fortunately, in their noticing the "evolving meaning", they have indirectly admitted that all those termed vratyas of old are not those of later times: not those of the eventual religions who at some point were also using the term for (aspects of) themselves.
Again: Ramana's post is way up there in #163
Another link: can see the writer develop the "ur-Shramana" mythology, but under another name. Again, note the year: 2008 -
ssubbanna.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/08/who-were-the-vratyas-the-searching-wanderers.htm
Fortunately, in their noticing the "evolving meaning", they have indirectly admitted that all those termed vratyas of old are not those of later times: not those of the eventual religions who at some point were also using the term for (aspects of) themselves.
Again: Ramana's post is way up there in #163