The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s14.12

c10.s14.12

While calling attention to the need for a reshuffling of the *Dharma* box in regard to dates and appreciating in the main the general lines of attack as formulated by Meyer it is not possible in the present work to deal with the entire *corpus* in a specialised manner. The conventional chronology, relative and absolute, as established by Bühler and Jolly, is therefore being provisionally left undisturbed, so far as the series from Gautama to Nārada and Brihaspati is concerned. In regard to the subsequent treatises, wherever there is a conflict between Winternitz's *Geschichte der Indischen Literatur* Vol. III (1921) and Kane's *History of the Dharmaśastras* Vol. I. (1930), a *via media* is being decided upon. On the chronology of every text Kane has bestowed considerable attention.