The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s13.14

c12.s13.14

The category, "from Kauṭalya to Varāhamihira," is only a convenient expression. We have taken the period of nine hundred or nearly one thousand years from Alexander and Aristotle to Justinian and Gregory the Great, which corresponds to the Indian age from Pāṇini to Brihaspati. The most varied phases of culture, nay, the most varied culture-worlds are to be seen in growth and development during this millennium. For the purposes of intensive study, naturally, we should have to divide this period up into several stages.