Hindu philosophy is a collective title for the vast number of doctrines and beliefs that evolved in the Indian subcontinent (called Bharatvarsha or Bharatakhanda in Sanskrit texts) from ancient times to the present. In the first millennium BCE, the Persians used the term "Hindu" for the lands around the Indus River; with the Greeks the word became "India." This initially geographic term was first applied to the religious and philosophical doctrines of India by Arab and Turkish historians in the second millennium CE. In the eighteenth century, European scholars restricted the term "Hinduism" to the beliefs and philosophies following.....
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