The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s13.24

c10.s13.24

The *Viṣṇu-Dharma*, the *Śiva-Dharma*, the *Mahābhārata*, and the *Rāmāyaṇa* and the rest are also to be included among *Smritis*. As says the *Bhaviṣya*:—“The eighteen *Purāṇas*, the history of Rāma (*Rāmāyaṇa*), the *Viṣṇu-Dharma-Śāstra*, &c., the *Śiva-Dharma*, the fifth Veda called the *Mahābhārata* composed by Kriṣṇa Dvaipāyana, the *Sauradharma*, the *Mānavokta Dharma*, are also taken as such by the wise” (IV. v. 87-88).