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INTRODUCTION which prevailed previous to Buddha's time. Sankaracharya had to accept this principle although, in his attempt to restore the ancient Vedic religion, he qualified it by stating that animal sacrifice performed according to the Vedic rites cannot be held as sinful. Notwithstanding this qualification, the great principle of Buddha is now more or less universally accepted; and the Vedic animal sacrifices have almost disappeared in India. Similarly the "fine" of Buddha establishing the fleeting nature of everything in this world, including even the internal consciousness of man, the latter corresponding to the human 'soul, has been with a single modification adopted by Sankaracharya, who taught that while everything else is feeting from moment to moment and thus unrcal and iimpossible to grasp properly, God alone, the basis of all creation, must be considered as real and never changing. Thus there is very great similarity between the teachings of Buddha and Sankaracharya. 3. The later Vedantins have, with a few exceptions, regarding the nature of the human Soul, adopted the teachings of Sankaracharya and are thus very inaterially influenced by Buddhistic ideas. •ln fact, the idea of the Aeeting nature of the world and the rule of abstaining froni killing human ' or any life, so well