Let us imagine traditional Sanskrit scholars of India build a new s'Astra called amerikAdhyayanas'Astra, amerikAs'Astra in short. The s'Astra follows praMANas, tarkapaddhati/vAdapaddhati, paribhAshAs, and all other essential features of a s'Astra to study American society.

 

Let us imagine s'Astra becomes THE method of study for all academics in America.

 

Is there or isn't there a possibility that for Americans, some aspects of the picture of America understood through the method of s'Astra, however robust the method of s'Astra is, apeears to be not correct and then they begin to question the correctness of the very approach of looking at American society through s'Astric methods?

 

Is it correct to argue in that case, that the method of s'Astra is as neutral as a rikshaw or a combustion Engine and it has no cultural conditioning?

 

Will it be wrong to suggest that the s'Astra if used to do amerikAs'Astra, should be used after modifying it in such a way that it is freed from the cultural conditionings in it?

 

N

   

--