Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.t6.4

c5.s2.t6.4

During the first phase of such a conflict we should expect the guardians of the old world that is being challenged to reject and denounce the deviant world and to present an uncompromising defense of the old. Such a defense will include attempts at theological legitimation of the central institutions of that world. We encounter such attempts in a spectrum of Brāhmaṇical texts belonging to widely different periods.