“‘Such voices … in any case are pretty much in the minority. The dominant ideology is that which ascribes clear priority and absolute competence to shastric codification.’”

— Sheldon Pollock

Quoted from Rajiv Malhotra, The Battle for Sanskrit (2016)

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