The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t1.15

c13.s3.t1.15

The work is perhaps posterior to Kālidāsa (c 400). In the *Meghadūta* Kālidāsa speaks of Kamkhal but ignores Hardwar or Gaṅgādvāra,¹⁸ possibly because as a Śaiva sacred place the latter spot is comparatively recent. But in the *Bārhaspatya sūtra* III, 122, Gaṅgādvāra is mentioned as a *Kṣetra* (p. 8). The material may perhaps be old, as old at least as the Kauṭalyan *Arthaśāstra*. But because of some comparatively recent names the compilation may have to be placed somewhere in the age of Harṣavardhana (c 650), if not still later. Be it observed at once that the spirit of Harṣavardhana in certain respects, at any rate, is the farthest removed from the atmosphere of this *Sūtra*. The references to the Bauddha (II. 9, 15, 34) are entirely un-Harṣalike.