http://www.sulekha.com/expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=307498
apparently not according to this writer, i tend to agree.
Manu, one of the great ancient lawgivers of the Hindu tradition, states the following in his Manava-dharma-shastra:
All those traditions and all those disreputable* systems of philosophy that are not based on the Veda produce no positive result after death; for they are declared to be founded on darkness. All those doctrines differing from the Veda that spring up and soon perish are ineffectual and misleading, because they are of modern date.
(XII, 95)
*Lacking respectability, as in character, behavior, or appearance.