The word Parivrajaka means "roaming ascetic". A wandering religious mendicant. Although this term occurs in the early Brahmanic tradition of the Upaniṣads, it is also applicable to Buddhist and Jain monks, as well as to Hindu saṃnyāsins. The Pāli equivalent is paribbājaka. Vedic Brahmanism - drawing its identity from the Vedic corpus - was a religious form associated with socially dominant groups, supporting practices and beliefs that could be seen as an orthodoxy, there have been movements that have distanced themselves in various ways from Vedic Brahmanism. The Shramana group - Buddhism, Jainism and