| Brahmanical motifs can be found in the oldest Buddhist texts, using them to introduce and explain Buddhist ideas. |
| In the Pali Canon, the Buddha uses many Brahmanical devices. |
| He joined in the Brahmanical worship and sacrifices of his Rajput queens. |
| Buddhism declined, though many of its ideas, and even the Buddha himself, were absorbed into certain Brahmanical traditions. |
| The Senas were staunch promoters of Brahmanical Hinduism and laid the foundation of Bengali Hinduism. |
| As this instance is concerned with family and clan, it raises the question as to whether this use of the vocative is attested in contemporaneous Brahmanical literature. |
