The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t5.7

c11.s1.t5.7

Should the *Arthaśāstra* comprising the legal portion (*Dharmasthīyam*), says he, be taken for a composition of the fourth century B.C. then the entire chronology, up till now accepted as valid for the schools of Hindu law, falls like a house of cards. It appears, if we are to follow this kind of logic, that all new discoveries and inventions must be forbidden and penalized in order that the *status quo* of a tradition—albiet scholastic—may not be altered.