The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.93

c20.93

The followers of all these different gods formed, or rather appeared to a foreign observer as forming, different sects.(65) Al Idrisi therefore states that there were 42 different sects in India at his time. But since the followers of the different deities shared the belief that they were worshipping the different manifestations of one and the same Supreme God, they can hardly be described as forming different sects.