Except for the Pali of the Hinayana Buddhists and the Prakrt of the Jains, Sanskrit is the only language that has, over the past two or three thousand years, united Indian culture and given it a synchronous form despite general differences in popular speech, racial and geographical, economic, and other differences. It is the one ground that has allowed for the development of all of India's sciences. Saiva, Vaisnava, Sakta, and other subsidiary faiths had actually emerged in the shadow of the main Vedic religion, and within each of them, there had been many sects and subsects which have often emphasised the domestic quarrel, but in spite of it all there is a unity of religions among the Hindus, for the mother of all religious and secular culture had been Sanskrit.