The Assalâyana Sutta (MN93) is significant in that it records all the arguments
ever used by the Buddha against the brahmins’ claim to class supremacy.
Assalâyana is a 16-year-old brahmin student of Sāvatthī, learned in the
Vedas and related fields. After repeated requests by 500 brahmins to
defeat the Buddha in a debate, he visits the Buddha and asks him his
response to the claims of the brahmins that they are the highest class,
born of Brahmā’s mouth.
