The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s2.t2.1

c13.s2.t2.1

The tenth century saw several great works.⁶ The synthetic jurist Śrīkara (*c* 950) is the author perhaps of a commentary or of a Nibandha i.e. digest. He is said to have filled in the gaps of Smritis and established order out of chaos. He may have been greatly under the influence of Yājnavalkya. According to Chaṇḍeśvara in his *Rājanītiratnākara* (ch. XV) Śrīkara had views on public law i.e. politics as well. He held that the revenues of the state have the poor and the helpless as some of their *amśī* (co-sharers or owners).