The Dark Side of Sanskrit
There is a dark side to everything, and when we let a tradition from 200 BC enter our heads, we take in, along with the mantras, a whole set of attitudes, like bacteria in the drinking water, that we may not have developed an immunity to. By being alert to the taboos from the Bronze Age, we may be able to get over these infections sooner.
Buddhist India, by T. W. Rhys Davids By Thomas William Rhys Davids
Sati: widow burning in India, Sakuntala Narasimhan
Sri Guru Granth Sahib Discovered by Hakim S. Rahi
Mantras as weapons to subdue
The purpose is to keep non-Brahmins in constant terror
A social history of India By S. N. Sadasivan