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@article{Gonda1977ReligiousTA,
  title={Religious thought and practice in Vaikhānasa Viṣṇuism},
  author={Jan Gonda},
  journal={Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies},
  year={1977},
  volume={40},
  pages={550 - 571},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154419403}
}

The question as to how many individuals in one of the religious communities of ancient and modern India at a given historical moment understood all the meanings and implications of their traditional ritual symbolism may to a considerable extent be irrelevant, but the relation between religious practice and the philosophical or theological doctrines underlying it is of outstanding interest. Whereas we are, as far as this relation between thought and practice in Vedic religion is concerned… 

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