The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.9

c15.s1.9

Another point deserves emphasis. Even in those documents where materialism is not likely to be much in evidence, the materialistic (“sensate”) basis of some of the non-materialistic (“ideational”) speculations cannot by any means be ignored. The *Sānkhya-Vaiśeṣika*, the *Nyāya* and the *Āyurvedic* foundations of Hindu thought constitute the permanent background of materialism in Indian philosophy.³