"For hundreds of years before Buddha's time, movements were in progress in Indian thought which prepared the way for Buddhism."
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Hermann Oldenberg, quoted in Ancient Indian Education: Brahmanical and Buddhist by Radha Kumud Mookerji
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Hermann Oldenberg
Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel and Göttingen.
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