The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s14.1

c10.s14.1

The *Smṛiti* literature does not offer, according to Meyer in *Ueber das Wesen der altindischen Rechtsschriften* (Leipzig 1927, pp. vi., 86-88), anything like the development of secular law but rather the progressive incorporation into Brāhmaṇical *Dharma* works of this law which originated and was developed in other milieux (*anderwarts entstandenen und ausgebildeten Rechts*). This attitude in regard to the origin of *des weltlichen Rechtes* is perhaps unorthodox from the standpoint of Hindu socio-religious tradition and certainly from that of traditional modern scholarship in indology.