Abstrakt
The actual fragments of the Presocratic thinkers are preserved as quotations in subsequent ancient authors, from Plato in the fourth century B.C. to Simplicius in the sixth century A.D”- reads the introductory note to The Presocratic philosophers (Kirk, Raven, Schofield 1999: 21). Researchers of the oldest thought of Hindu philosophy are thus in a much better situation [...]