[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914) › c10.s3.2 # The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s3.2 The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s3.2 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10.s3.2) Finally, so far as the stories, legends and folk-lore go, the \*Jātakas\* have their natural "cognates" not only in treatises like the \*Kathāsaritsāgara\*, but the \*Mahābhārata\* itself. Exponents of secularization in indology must, therefore, attack the Buddhist Pali "canon" with the same logic as they have been applying to the so-called Hindu documents. - [Previous: c10.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10.s3.1) - [Next: c10.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10.s3.3) - [Up: c10.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10.s3) ## Cites (3) - [Kathāsaritsāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara) — Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10.s3.2) · Pramāṇa