GROWTH OF BUDDHISM :

Causes of new movement :

1.The vedic rituals were expensive &the sacrifices prescribed were very complicated & hed lost their meaning .

2. The caste system had become rigid .

3. Supermacy of brahmins created unrest.

4. All the religious text were in sanskrit,which was not understandable to the masses.

1. It succumbed to the Brahmanic rituals and ceremonies, such as idol worship, etc, which Buddhism had earlier denounced.

2.Revivals of reformed Hinduism with the preaching of Shankaracharya from ninth century onwards.

3. Use of sanskrit, the language of intellectuals, in place of pali, the language of the common people.

4. Deterioration in the moral standards among the monks living in Buddhist monosteries.

5. Entry of women into Buddhist monasteries.

6. Attacks of huna kings mihirkula in the sixth century and the turkis invaders in the twelfthcentury AD.