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MODERN HINDUISM. according to Sir W. W. Hunter, " a reassertion, in some form, of the personality of God and the equality of men in His sight."
Sankara Acharya was the disciple of Kumarila, still more famous than his master; he popularised the late
contorn Vedantist philosophy as a national religion, Sankara.
de and “since his short life in the eighth or ninth century, every new Hindu sect has had to start with a personal God” (Hunter). He taught that the supreme God Brahma was distinct from the old Brahman triad,
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and must be worshipped by spiritual meditations, not by sacrifices; and he perpetuated his teaching by founding a Brahman sect, the Smartas. However, he still allowed the practice of the Vedic rites, and worship of the deity in any popular form; and it is claimed by popular tradition that he founded many of the Hindu sects of the present day. Siva worship is supposed to be specially his work, though it existed long before; and he has ever been represented by his followers as an incarnation of Siva. Siva is, as we have said before, the Rudra or
