Studies in the Epics and Puranas c4.2

c4.2

Composed at different times, they not only contain, as is now acknowledged, valuable historical material, but also canons relating to several spheres of art and life. If the materials relating to social life, century after century, found scattered in the different Purāṇas, are properly studied, they will throw considerable light on the social evolution of the country during the early centuries of the Christian era.