Hindu Medicine c5.s2.8

c5.s2.8

Taking such a stand, Zimmer at first felt rather isolated and was conscious of his being different from his fellow students and from his teachers, among them the eminent Sanskritist, H. Lüders. For Sanskrit studies were then in their positivistic phase; the validity of the content of Hindu teaching was hardly debated. Later he came to realize that at least in his basic approach he was not as lonely as he had thought. Arthur Avalon and J. J. M. de Groot were on his side. These names were given as examples in his *Autobiographical Remarks* which he jotted down shortly before he died.⁴ Of the older generation, men like P. Deussen and K. E. Neumann could probably be added; among his contemporaries there was J. H. Woods, and there was A. W. Ryder, for whom the Sankhya came “nearer to the truth than any philosophy Western or Eastern.”⁵