Vedas Buddhism does not deny that the Vedas in their true origin were
sacred although have been amended repeatedly by certain Brahmins to
secure their positions in society.
The Buddha declared that the Veda in its true form was declared by
Kashyapa to certain rishis, who by severe penances had acquired the
power to see by divine eyes.
In the Buddhist Vinaya Pitaka of the Mahavagga section the Buddha
names these rishis, and declared that the original Veda the Vedic
rishis "Atthako, Vâmako, Vâmadevo, Vessâmitto, Yamataggi, Angiraso,
Bhâradvâjo, Vâsettho, Kassapo, and Bhagu"but that it was altered by a
few Brahmins who introduced animal sacrifices.
The Vinaya Pitaka's section Anguttara Nikaya: Panchaka Nipata says
that it was on this alteration of the true Veda that the Buddha
refused to pay respect to the Vedas of his time.
The Buddha is recorded in the Canki Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 95) as
saying to a group of Brahmins:
O Vasettha, those priests who know the scriptures are just like a line
of blind men tied together where the first sees nothing, the middle
man nothing, and the last sees nothing.
In the same discourse, he says:
It is not proper for a wise man who maintains truth to come to the
conclusion: This alone is Truth, and everything else is false.
He is also recorded as saying:
To be attached to one thing (to a certain view) and to look down upon
other things (views) as inferior - this the wise men call a fetter.
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