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Prajapati, Brahman, or even Atman. It is much more in accordance with what we learn from the Brahmans and Upanishads of the intellectual life of India to admit an infinite number of intellectual centres of thought scattered all over the country, in which either the one or the other view found influencial advocates."
“The Sutras or aphorisms which we possess of six systems of philosophy, each distinct from the other, cannot possibly claim to represent the very first attempts at a systematic treatment, they are rather the last summing up of what had been growing up during many generations of isolated thinkers.”
"As far back as we can trace the history of thought in India, from the time of King Harsha and the Buddhist pilgrims back to the descriptions found in the Mahabharata, the testimonies of the Greek invaders, the minute accounts of the Buddhists in their Tripitaka ; and in the end the Upanishads themselves and the hymns of the Vedas, we are met everywhere by the same picture, a society in which spiritual interests predominate and throw all material interests into the shade, a world of thinkers, a nation of philosophers.”
"To the present days these six different systems of philosophy have held their own in the midst of a great multitude of philosophical theories propounded by the thinkers of India."
“Nor could the fact that some of the Sutras quote and refute the opinions of other Sutras, be accounted
