The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s13.21

c10.s13.21

In the *Bhaviṣya Purāṇa*²¹ we find the following addressed by Īśvara to Guha : "Having pondered over the texts of the eighteen *Purāṇas*, O Child, and over the texts of the *Smritis*, beginning with Manu and which are thirty-six in number, I now tell thee.”