contd....... Emperor Ashok has become an icon of Buddhism. He promoted Buddhism in his empire and sent out Dhamma ambassadors to different country. Maghad was origin (Bodhgaya) of Dhamma and from same Maghad itspread out to different directions. Maghad became highly regarded place for shining Buddhism. Education centre of Indian subcontinent shifted from Taxila (200 Km North West of Islamabad, Pakistan) to Nalanda, Maghad. Scholars from all over the Buddhist world began to flow towards Nalanda. You can estimate how many books would there have been; it is said when Muslim invaders set Nalanda university in fire, the books burn for six months. In short, Maghad became an ideal Buddhist country. Almost all people accepted Buddhism as their religion. As time passed, Buddhism got polluted. People were practicing useless things by the name of Buddhas teaching. As Buddhas teaching lost its credibility society began to feel that Buddhas teaching needed to be replaced. One strange thing is Budhhas teaching had never reached to South India though it covered most of the Asia. From southern part of India Hinduism begin to spread slowly. Many North Indian Brahmins had accepted Buddhism but there were few conservative Brahmin left who had been following Hinduism. As the Hinduism reappeared from the south, these Brahmins pushed for it. Many people began to get converted back to Hinduism. Those who didn’t get converted were considered lower castes. Caste system reappeared. Maghad which had image of villain in Puranic age were made the home of Krishna, the eighth incarnation of their new god called Vishnu. Hindus begin to write Puran few years after Buddha. Puran were written because old Hindu Secret Books like Veda didn’t have space for the new ideas developed by Buddhism and Jainism. To accommodate these new ideas they began to write Purana. They picked two unpopular gods out of thirty three Vedic gods, ie Vishnu and Rudra and began to write arbitrary stories. Since Magad was center for Buddhist, so in Puranic stories Maghad was described as a kingdom of Evil. For example: Jara Sandha, Kansha, etc. Sri Lanka was another evil habitat because it was a Buddhist country. All most all Maghad were habitat for Yadhavs and almost all of them were Buddhist. To covert these people they generated Krishna. Bashudeva, who was known as Krishna as well, was a mythological character. In ancient India there was a tradition to tell stories to teach moral lesson. This tradition had gone to Greece through Persia. Greek had recorded this tradition in their history. Some of us might have read fable of Aesop. Ram, Krishna, Janak, Sita, Arjun, youdhistar, Vidur etc were the characters of these moral stories. Puranic writers gave life to these fable characters. Krishna was made fore father of Yadavs, which helped Yadav to get converted to Hinduism. They made Buddha as incarnation of Vishnu’s negativity to eradicate Buddhism completely from Magadha and elsewhere. And finally Buddhism got wiped out form the country of its origin. Those people who got converted from Buddhism later didn’t get good space in new Hindu society and those who converted too late were considered lower castes. Perhaps Yadavs were got converted to Hinduism quite late. This could be the reason why there are many back ward castes in northern India and they are ruling now. to be continued............