This was more and more appreciated at a time when Brahmanic orthodoxy intolerantly insisted on believing and accepting their tradition and authority as the only Truth without question. Once a group of learned and well-known Brahmins went to see the Buddha and had a long discussion with him. One of the group, a Brahmin youth of 16 years of age, named Kapathika, considered 1 Here the word saddha is used in its ordinary popular sense of 'devotion, faith, belief'. 2 S II (PTS.), p. 117. 3 Ibid. Ill, p. 152. 4 E.g. S V, (PTS), p. 425; III, p. 103; M III (PTS), p. 19. 5 S V (PTS), p. 422. 9
by them all to be an exceptionally brilliant mind, put a question to the Buddha
