Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c10.5

c10.5

Generalising on the contents of Purāṇas, Hindu writers declare that they all deal with five subjects: primary creation or cosmogony, secondary creation or cosmogony of worlds including chronology; genealogy of gods and patriarchs; reigns of Manus and the history of the solar and lunar dynasties. An ampler analysis specified ten essential contents: (1) primary creation, (2) secondary creation, (3) description and