The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s2.1

c12.s2.1

To the two classes of Buddhist texts, Pali and Sanskrit, have to be added the Prakrit texts of Jainism. The Jaina canon known as the *Siddhānta* was ''written down'' in present form about 550 A.C. We are to understand, however, that the Jaina social philosophy was a formative force in the intellectual and cultural world of India under the Mauryas, Āndhras, Kuṣaṇas, Vākāṭakas, Bhāraśivas and the Guptas.