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Satyakama Jabala was a Buddhist thinker.

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The above statement is False.
The Upanishads suggest that most Upanishadic thinkers were men, especially brahmins and rajas. Upanishadic thinkers advanced the concept of atman and brahman to answer the questions of life and death. Upanishads sometimes mention women thinkers such as Gargi, who was famous for learning and participating in debates held in royal courts. Poor people rarely took part in philosophical discussions. Satyakama Jabala, named after his mother, the slave woman Jabali, became a renowned exception. Gautama, a brahmin teacher, accepted him as a student seeing his deep desire to learn about reality. Jabala became one of the best-known thinkers of the time, and Shankaracharya later developed several of his ideas.
The correct statement is that Satyakama Jabala was a philosophical thinker.

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