History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2012 History
In which Buddhist scripture have the religious practices in the contemporary period of the Buddha been mentioned?
AAmbattha Sutta
BMahavamsa
CBhaddasala Jataka
DBrahmajala Sutta ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Brahmajala Sutta — The religious practices of the Buddha's time are described in the Brahmajala Sutta, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The religious practices of the Buddha's time are described in the Brahmajala Sutta, so that is the answer.
★The Brahmajala Sutta is the first of the thirty four suttas of the Digha Nikaya.
★It surveys the many views and practices current among teachers of that age.
★The sutta discusses the ten precepts, the middle precepts and the great precepts.
★It is a key source for the religious ferment of the sixth century BCE.
★The Mahavamsa, by contrast, is a later Sri Lankan chronicle.
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