Luv Mehta on Nostr: i see! buddhism left india and evolved through cultural streams so this is ...

i see! buddhism left india and evolved through cultural streams so this is fascinating to me. you'll find very few buddhists in india due to hindu repression and assimilation. most of the words you mentioned are sanskrit in origin and are also very much ordinary hindi (and other language) words today. like madhyamik too, for example, for a bengali it's just the name for West Bengal board exams.