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Contents
- 1. Reason and Belief: Richness and diversity in Indian thought
- 2. The Brahmanical Beginnings: Sacrifice, cosmic speculation, oneness
- 3. Renouncing the Household: The Buddha's Middle Way
- 4. Issues and Justifications: Language, grammar, and polemics
- 5. Categories and Method: Vaiśeṣika and Nyāya
- 6. Things and No‐things: Developments in Buddhist thought
- 7. The Witness and the Watched: Yoga and Sāṃkhya
- 8. The Word and the Book: Bhartṛhari, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedānta
- Postscript: From Classical Thought to the Modern Day