Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c4.22

c4.22

The varieties of opinion kept pace with those of practice, and six heretical schools of philosophy disputed the pre-eminence with their orthodox brethren: we have little or no knowledge of these systems, and even their names are not satisfactorily stated: they seem, however, to be the *Saugata* or *Bauddha*, *Arhata*, or *Jain*, and *Várhaspatya*, or Atheistical, with their several sub-divisions.*