History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c66.13

v5.c66.13

The fifth and last volume will mainly deal with the following subjects vratas and utsavas, śānti rites, kāla and muhūrta; paurāṇa-dharma, the influence of the Pūrvamīmāṁsā and other śāstras on dharmaśāstra; the cosmological, religious and philosophical background of dharmaśāstra; the fundamental aspects of our culture through the ages; the impact of modern social and other ideas and trends on the dogmas and ideals of dharmaśāstra and the future of the latter This by itself is rather an ambitious programme. Now that I am over seventy-three years of age and suffering from several ailments I have misgivings whether I would be able to write this last volume and publish it while all mental and physical faculties are sound I am myself extremely anxious to write this last volume as early as possible and bring to a conclusion an undertaking to which I have devoted all my leisure for over thirty years regardless of monetary losses and bodily ailments. With that object in view I have given up either entirely or very largely most of my other activities and engagements and have thereby offended many of my friends.