This refers to your Debate on Budhism. It is true that the Brahminical Social Order’s (BSO) hypocrisy is being exposed by the Editor as well as some of its readers but the whole truth has not yet come out. Brahminism in India has deep roots. There was no priestly class during the Vedic days, No Brahmins, no priestly class. The earliest Aryans were beef-eaters. Their only religion was sacrifice in which large number of animals were killed. Today, we are so poor in knowledge that we are not able to bring out what Babasaheb has already written in his so many volumes. The Brahmins became vegetarians to kill Budhism. Budha used to accept cooked meat in his begging bowl, but he or his followers did not accept raw meat.
Growth of Brahminism has a definite history. A class of people who were merely poets or bards were engaged on these occasions by the ruling princes and other rich nobles to recite mantras during such occasions. They developed a new literature known. as Brahmanas. Writing was then not known. A class of Brahmin families were then engaged in memorising these mantras. They made it their monopoly. There was a Kshatriya reaction. Some of the ruling princes like Pravabay, Ajat Shatru etc. were also great rishies. Kapilamuni, who gave us Sankhya Darshan, was a Kshatriya of the same tribe (saka) to which Budha belonged. The Budha gave it a missionary shape. The exact words in which the Budha challenged the Brahmins are available in his own volume (Buddha &
