The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.61
The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.61
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c13.s6.61
Alberuni describes the "educated people among the Hindus as calling God *Īśvara*, i.e., self-sufficing, beneficent, who gives without receiving. They consider the unity of God as absolute" (Vol. I. p. 31). Then passing "from the ideas of the educated people among the Hindus to those of the common people," he observes "that they present a great variety and that some of them are simply abominable."