The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.7

c12.7

With the establishment of the Guptas at Pāṭaliputra, it was pointed out, we enter modern India. The currency of thought, the conventions and technique of life obtaining in the age of the *Raghuvamśa* are almost the same as today, but the Hindus of the age of the *Arthaśāstra* or even of Aśvaghoṣa's *Awakening of Faith in the* *Mahāyāna* thought in other terms and lived in other spheres.