The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.3

c13.3

From Harṣa to Hemādri (*c* 600-1300) we encounter the same *rapprochements* between the diverse disciplines. From Chaṇḍeśvara to Rāmmohun Roy (1772-1833), the last of the mediaevals and the first of the moderns, also, the story of growth in the juxtaposition and mutual interactions of the diverse branches of intellectual activity is a signal fact of India's literary history. The interactions are embodied, in the first place, in unacknowledged influences, nay, assimilations of one another. In the second place, direct quotations of words or phrases and wholesale incorporations of chapters, sections or paragraphs occupy in important place in this regard. And finally, criticisms, often hostile and relentless of one another, are no less prominent. The "scientific," philosophic, metaphysical and literary perspectives of the *Dharma*, *Artha*, *Nīti* and allied treatises are therefore to be explored and appraised as much in the case of the period from Harṣa to Hemādri as in that of the others.