The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s13.30

c10.s13.30

The *Kalpataru* holds that the four sciences mentioned in the *Viṣṇu Purāṇa* (III. 6, 26), as they relate to positive physical sciences, should be taken as authority and *Dharma* in matters worldly. Those sciences are "the *Āyurveda* (medicine), the *Dhanurveda* (archery), the *Gandharvaveda* (music), and the *Arthaśāstra* (the science of wealth). The sciences are altogether eighteen according to the *Viṣṇu Purāṇa*."