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preceding centuries of Buddhist and Jain influence on India. It is infamous calumny. No chapter of India's history has been more glorious than that of the Buddhist period under Ashok and others, when India accomplished a cultural conquest of the world, and the East became a synonym for Wisdom of life and values everlasting.
"I readily admit that regeneration and decay are the Law of life, - of all living organisms. But if Shankar found contemporary Boddhism steeped in processes of decay, a man of his intellect and gifts should have crusaded against prevailing practices as did Gandhi against the curse of untouchability and brought about a complete reformation. He could have recast Brahmanism and brought about a complete reorientation of Hinduism by a process of assimilation and synthesis as did modern masters, Vivekanand downwards. He should have, besides, known that the retrograde Brahmanical revival with which he sought to replace Buddhism was equally subject to processes of corruption and decay, and could not survive for all time."
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