The Rashtrakutas and their Times c3.9

c3.9

In Part III the aim is merely to describe the social, religious and economic conditions of our period. No attempt is made to account for the changes that we witness taking place at this time. To a student of the Dharmaśāstra literature, the temptation to initiate this enquiry is almost irresistible, but that would have been beyond the scope of the present work and would have unnecessarily increased its size. I hope to write in course of time a few monographs on the origin, development and history of the various socio-religious institutions of the Hindus. The first of these, dealing with the history and development of Education in Ancient India, has been just published.