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India their Own traditions will necessarily
appear all-important. But Dr. Thibaut who
has of his own accord set himself up as judge
between Sankara and Ramanuja belongs to no
particular tradition and is, in fact, an outsider.
If he can investigate the true doctrine of the
sutras, as he has set himself to do, in order to
show who is right and who is wrong in his in-
terpretation of the sutras as a whole or of parti-
cular parts of the treatise or of even individual
sutras, we cannot understand why he should
shrink from deciding for himself and for others
what is the true teaching of the Upanishads.
Thus only can he settle definitely the teaching
of the sutras for he holds that "the sutras
doubtless aim at systematising the teaching" of
the Upanishads, and Badarayana never identified
himself with any one school, as Dr. Thibaut
seems to hint when he says that "Ramanuja
and the whole series of more ancient commen-
tators on whom he looked as authorities denied
that the Upanishads teach Maya, and it is hence
by no means impossible that Badarayana should
have done the same." If it had been known
that Badarayana, by his own express declaration
India their Own traditions will necessarily
appear all-important. But Dr. Thibaut who
has of his own accord set himself up as judge
between Sankara and Ramanuja belongs to no
particular tradition and is, in fact, an outsider.
If he can investigate the true doctrine of the
sutras, as he has set himself to do, in order to
show who is right and who is wrong in his in-
terpretation of the sutras as a whole or of parti-
cular parts of the treatise or of even individual
sutras, we cannot understand why he should
shrink from deciding for himself and for others
what is the true teaching of the Upanishads.
Thus only can he settle definitely the teaching
of the sutras for he holds that "the sutras
doubtless aim at systematising the teaching" of
the Upanishads, and Badarayana never identified
himself with any one school, as Dr. Thibaut
seems to hint when he says that "Ramanuja
and the whole series of more ancient commen-
tators on whom he looked as authorities denied
that the Upanishads teach Maya, and it is hence
by no means impossible that Badarayana should
have done the same." If it had been known
that Badarayana, by his own express declaration