Even more than diaspora Jewish tradition, the survival strategy of Indian culture was cumulative. This is a particularly useful generalization to bear in mind. India was probably the only country where three in many ways contradictory systems of medicine, Indian, Arabic, and Greek, flourished side by side; a similar toleration extended to the successive stages of evolution in religious consciousness through which India passed. Outworn forms of religious worship were virtually never discarded – as Professor Sarma points out, the sages did their job of moving people beyond their “rather low type
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