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Some Hindu scholars demur to this derivation of Śâktism from lower cults.
2
In Bengal Śâktism and moribund Buddhism were not likely to engender new enthusiasms.
3
It would be convenient to distinguish Śâktism and Tantrism, as I have already suggested.
4
May not the grosser forms of Śâktism be perversions and corruptions of an ancient and higher faith?
5
In some aspects Śâktism is similar to the erotic Vishnuite sects, but there is little real analogy in their ways of thinking.
6
Śâktism never inspired any popular or missionary movement, but it was powerful among the aristocracy and instigated persecutions against the Vishnuites.