The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s12.5

c12.s12.5

One can, therefore, feel convinced that the influence of the *Mahābhārata*, the *Dharmaśāstras*, the *Purāṇas*, the *Śilpaśāstras*, and the sixty four *Kalās* in the life and thought of the Cham people in Indo-China about which inscriptions of subsequent ages give information was already at work in the period in question, i.e., from Kauṭalya to Kālidāsa, or at any rate, the first six centuries of the Christian era. No study of Hindu positivism and secular arts and sciences can be complete without adequate emphasis on these aspects of Greater India during this early period.