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>Govind Chandra Pande, a professor of Indian history, states in his 1957 study on the origins of Buddhism, that Śramaṇa was a "distinct and separate cultural and religious" tradition than the Vedic.[34]

>According to Bronkhorst, the sramana culture arose in "greater Magadha," which was Indo-European, but not Vedic. In this culture, Kshatriyas were placed higher than Brahmins, and it rejected Vedic authority and rituals.[41][42]

>Randall Collins states that "the basic cultural framework for lay society which eventually became Hinduism" was laid down by Buddhism.[57][note 9]

>The Upanishads are to my mind the germs of Buddhism - Max Muller, SBE Volume 15 li