The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s1.1

c13.s1.1

By the commencement of the sixth century A.C. most of the sciences whose "unwritten" beginnings, so to say, are to be found in the sixth century B.C. were definitely established in chapter and verse. For the classification of arts and sciences, *vidyās* and *kalās*, from the standpoint of formal logic, such as may indicate the lines of evolution in positivism and secular endeavours during the next seven hundred years we may single out the following rubrics :