The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s4.5

c10.s4.5

In the second place, the Śākyan *milieu* is somewhat anti-Vedic or anti-Brāhmaṇic in ideology and institutions too. To this extent the life and thought of Śākya and the Śākyans embody distinctively new aspects of culture and are therefore to be appraised as "supplements" to Vedic ideology and institutions. So far as these aspects are concerned, the Vedic and the anti-Vedic together constitute one Indian culture-complex. The place of Śākyan institutions and theories in a comprehensive study of Hindu politics, economics and sociology is therefore profound. The Buddhist (Śākyan) texts in Pali consequently have to be placed alongside of the Brāhmaṇical texts for an adequate survey of "Hindu" socio-political literature.