The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s8.24

c11.s8.24

As long as a tradition is there about the Maurya *milieu* of the text and its author it is for the anti-tradition party to adduce internal and external evidences such as may demolish the tradition. Unfortunately, up till now the evidences advanced are poor and mostly in the nature of (1) probabilities, (2) guesses, (3) *argumentum ex silentio*, (4) postulates about the interval between a borrower and his original, (5) comparison with a foreigner who was known in some circles as a liar and whose objectivity is very often questionable, and (6) hypothesis as to the probable degree of technocratic, industrial, political and juridical developments in pre-Christian India. Naturally the logic behind such arguments cannot appear to be convincing.