The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s9.2

c12.s9.2

Indeed, a substantial portion of the Vol. I. of the present work as executed in those days was based on *Vārttā* treatises and constitutes as such a contribution to Hindu *Vārttā* or applied economics. The chapters dealing with the data of Hindu mineralogy, Hindu botany (including *Vrikṣāyurveda*) and Hindu zoology (including *aśvaśāstra* and *gajaśāstra*) and along with them of Hindu medicine (*Āyurveda*) are essentially studies in the *Vārttā* positivism of the Hindus.