The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s7.3

c5.s7.3

In his postulates the spirit of India is not to be found in the *Sāṅkhya Kārikā* and the *Yoga-sūtra* which throw light on Indian dualism, the *Tripiṭaka* which illustrates older Buddhism, the Jaina texts, the *Mahāyāna-sūtras* of later Buddhism, the work of Rāmānuja, Madhva, and Vallabha, i.e., the opponents of Śaṅkara's Vedantism, as well as in the *Tantra* literature of Śaivism. All these sources are of importance to him only in so far as they furnish an index to the "deviations" from what he considers to be the *Geist* or spirit of India (p. 6).