Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c4.24

c4.24

* In a work written by the celebrated *Mádhava*, describing the different sects as they existed in his day, entitled the *Sarva Darsana*; the *Várhaspatyas*, *Lokáyatas*, and *Chárvákas* are identified, and are really advocates of an atheistical doctrine, denying the existence of a god, or a future state, and referring creation to the aggregation of but four elements. The *Bauddhas*, according to the same authority, admit of four sub-divisions, the *Madhyámikas*, *Yogácháras*, *Sautrántikas*, and *Vaibháshicas*. The Jains or Arhats, as still one of the popular divisions, we shall have occasion to notice in the text.