Pali is the best attested of the Middle Indo-Aryan languages because of the extensive writings of early Buddhists.

He was possibly a prince, if early Buddhist and Jaina sources could be believed.

The early Buddhists, however, rather than seeing Mara as a demonic, virtually all-powerful Lord of Evil, regarded him as more of a nuisance.

The Gandharan Buddhist texts are both the earliest Buddhist and South Asian manuscripts discovered so far.

The German Buddhist Nyanatiloka was an important early Buddhist in Switzerland and who planned to found a Buddhist monastery there.

Alexandra David-Néel was an important early French Buddhist.

It seems that the Buddha's teaching on non-violence was not interpreted or put into practice in an uncompromisingly pacifist or anti-military-service way by early Buddhists.

Ganesha worship was brought to Japan by early Buddhists through China.

If this is correct then they applied the same standard as early Buddhists.

For the early Buddhists they were likely not thought of as having any outstanding significance in and of themselves, and as simply one section of the Vedas.