This quote is from Dr. Peter A. Pardue, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University, from his first lecture in R355, Hinduism, January 16, 1973. This statement was also made in some form or another during the course of his first lectures in R253, Religious Traditions of East Asia & India, and R455, Religions of India. He also discusses the isue in his book, Peter A. Pardue, Buddhism: A Historical Introduction to Buddhist Values and the Social and Political Forms They Have Assumed in Asia, New York: MacMillan Co., 1971.