antisacerdotalism

Updated: February 24, 2026

In all this poetry there rings out a note of almost defiant monotheism, iconoclasm and antisacerdotalism. It may be partly explained by the fact that in the south Brahmanism was preceded, or at least from early times accompanied, by Buddhism and Jainism.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2