The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c9.5

c9.5

The history of Indian civilisation is the history of its village communities, which embraced within their pale many schools of thought differing in philosophical theories, yet all having their common root in the life of the village and in the Vedic philosophy, which remained the motive power of its social and intellectual progress even when teachers arose, like the Buddha, who disputed the efficacy of sacrificial rites and the divine authority which the Brahmans attributed to the Vedas.