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- From: prasanth@ecn.purdue.edu (Ravi K. Prasanth)
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- Subject: Re: Indra, Mithra and Varuna
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 16:20:18 -0800
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- In article <1ee8vjINN6bf@sandman.caltech.edu>, bhattach@quip.eecs.umich.edu (sayan bhattacharyya) writes:
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- > Hinduism accommodates within its folds a mass of diverse beliefs and
- > philosophies, even some very contradictory ones. Remember that
- > the unabashedly atheist and materialist philosophy of Charvaka
- > ("Rinang kritva ghritang pibet ... " etc) is also a valid constituent
- > of Hinduism just as sects professing blind faith are.
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- Indeed. The greatest achievement of "Hinduism" is its sanctioning
- of free speculation.
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- > -Sayan Bhattacharyya.
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- RKP
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