he would see hundreds of shrines and temples and altars to various gods and goddesses in the Hindu pantheon. While in Athens, Paul got into a dispute with a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers, two of the major intellectual schools of that time (17:18). If Paul were to stay long in Varanasi, he would soon find himself in a dispute with philosophers who teach at the famous Benares Hindu University. Followers of the great philosophers Sankara and Ramanuja still debate the nature of God, the reality