The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s3.1

c11.s3.1

Breloer’s position in this regard should appear to be anything but scientific. According to him the way through the *Arthaśāstra* leads direct into the actual life of India, and that life is alleged to be evident even today as it was in Buddha’s time and earlier. This postulate of unchanging India is modified by him in so far as he admits the existence of changing conditions and concedes that the number of “constant factors” is equal to that of the unknown or changing ones. But in any case, “the variations", says he, "which the Indian system has undoubtedly experienced fully disappear behind the institutions which have survived the changes of times until today and will survive further in future.¹⁸