":::: Blades, the claim that Hinduism is ""is synthesis of various traditions"" is as anti-WP:REDFLAG  as it gets (in fact the article gets it wrong IMO in positioning this as a Western understanding), and also is supported, for example, by Flood p.16 ""The many traditions that feed into contemporary Hinduism..."" and, frankly, the rest of the book section. I don't think we should be complaining of close-paraphrasing (which, I agree is a concern), while simultaneously objecting to fair paraphrasing just because a single word (""synthesis"") is not found in a particular source.    
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