The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s14.11

c10.s14.11

This is an eminently acceptable attitude of Meyer's. The most questionable practice in regard to the Vedic chronology as to the *Dharmaśāstra* chronology as well as the *Dharma-Artha-Kāma-śāstra* complex consists, as it has appeared to me always, in attaching a time-value to every instance of difference or discrepancy between author and author or rather text and text. Simply because certain social, legal or economic incidents are not mentioned by one authority but they happen to be dealt with by another it has become the convention among indologists to believe that there must be an interval of time lying between the two. Humanly speaking, it should be reasonable to believe also that both might have arisen in the same epoch but that not every authority as book-maker, writer or compiler cared to or was capable of giving everything that was prevalent in his days. The diversity of regions or homes and surroundings of the authors also may explain the discrepancy between text and text although composed at the same time and dealing with the same topic.