Out of the ideological opposition between these two cultural spheres – the orthodox śrauta realm of Kuru-Panchala in the west, and Greater Magadha in the east – developed the two main spiritual ideologies of Vedic India. Śrauta practiced by Brahmanas, which placed a lot of importance on the system of sacrifice and ritual correctness, arose out of the culture of the erstwhile Kuru-Panchala realm, while the śramaṇa tradition, which placed emphasis on the spiritual striving towards liberation,[3] that developed in Greater Magadha, later to give rise to the Buddhism and Jainism.[2]