:::: 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.