CHAPTER 3
Aggannasutta
INTRODUCTION
Aggannasutta is a part of the famous Buddhist literature ‘Digha Nikaya’. Digha Nikaya contains the teachings of Buddha, it’s an ancient text and belongs to the sixth-century BCE. The twenty-seventh Sutta of Digha Nikaya is known as Aggannasutta. It contains an alternative theory about the creation of life, and earth as well as social order and counters the social order suggested in Vedas or Dharmashastra tradition.
The major emphasis of Aggannasutta is about challenging the caste-based hierarchy present in Hindu and Vedic Philosophy. Aggannasutta is an account of a dialogue that occurred between Buddha and two Hindu (Brahmin) sages Vasettha and Bharadvaja, Buddha explained to them about injustice in the caste-based ...
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