The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.9

c12.9

A great deal of the Pali texts—the *Piṭakas* and the *Jātakas*—discussed in a previous connection belongs to the period between the Mauryas and the Guptas (c B.C. 325-A.C. 550). The economic, political, juridical and social data of this vast literature constitute therefore some solid foundations of Hindu positivism for about eight to nine hundred years.