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The Sramanas, wandering monks, outside the caste system who dedicated their lives to spiritual work like ascète.
We do not know their exact origin (maybe chamanic origin /sramana would be same like the word chamane)
, but it seems to be rooted in a very distant past of India ... we notably found illustrations of a character in a hatha-yoga position from the Indus civilization (and therefore prior to the arrival of Arya and Vedism).
-one version say
There have been Sramana currents opposed to vedas (known as "nastika"),
Sramana should be the ancestor of religion
like
Ajivika, Jainism and Buddhism (which originated in eastern India, little influenced by the arya installed to the west ... further proof that the sramana are of non-Aryan origin);
-other version say the sraman traditions often merged into brahmanism, and became very important aspects of hinduism (such as yoga).
The Sramanas, wandering monks, outside the caste system who dedicated their lives to spiritual work like ascète.
We do not know their exact origin (maybe chamanic origin /sramana would be same like the word chamane)
, but it seems to be rooted in a very distant past of India ... we notably found illustrations of a character in a hatha-yoga position from the Indus civilization (and therefore prior to the arrival of Arya and Vedism).
-one version say
There have been Sramana currents opposed to vedas (known as "nastika"),
Sramana should be the ancestor of religion
like
Ajivika, Jainism and Buddhism (which originated in eastern India, little influenced by the arya installed to the west ... further proof that the sramana are of non-Aryan origin);
-other version say the sraman traditions often merged into brahmanism, and became very important aspects of hinduism (such as yoga).