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Abstract: Buddha dharma dar?ana has its origin in opposing animal sacrifice, the performance of several rites and rituals to attain heaven and divinity. To find peace in life one needs the right path, where Buddha spoke of the eightfold path. The talk of divinity, even if is found to have been accommodated in a certain sphere, it is never at the cost of human welfare on the socio-empiric front. There is a religious prescription not only for the sacrifice of animals and a considerable amount of eatables but also for man-child to attain spiritual excellence. Not only the rigidity of j?tiv?da (casteism) is rationally unacceptable but, at the practical level, the suggestion of class rigidity is found to be most unworkable and immoral, causing serious damage to social cohesion and solidarity. Buddha is undoubted, critical of this irrational move. From this point of view, the philosophy of Buddha seems to be the logical culmination of the underdeveloped rather inarticulate philosophical position.