The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s6.6

c10.s6.6

Historically, Śākya's moralizings or addresses to the people of Magadha can be taken to a certain extent as continuations of the "harangues" of the Vedic¹³ poets to their *viṣ* and represent the same mentality as embodied in the dicta of the *Dharmaśāstras* or the stories of the *Mahābhārata* and later literature.