brahmanization

Updated: May 26, 2025

If, as some scholars think, the Yoga sûtras are not earlier than 450 A.D. it seems probable that it was Buddhism which stimulated the Brahmans to codify the principles and practice of Yoga, for the Yogâcâra school of Buddhism arose before the fifth century. The Sâṅkhya is perhaps a somewhat similar brahmanization of the purely speculative ideas which may have prevailed in Magadha and Kosala.

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