The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t3.5

c13.s3.t3.5

Thus the very definition of the term *Yukti-Kalpataru*, as the title of a book, introduces the topics of a *Nīti Śāstra*; and, as a matter of fact, all the subjects dealt with in the work are the proper themes of works like *Śukranīti*. The following table of contents in the *Yukti Kalpataru* would indicate that the work is, like the *Artha-śāstra*, *Kāmandakīnīti*, *Śukranīti*, and *Ghaṭakarpara-nīti*, really a socio-economic and socio-political treatise, and is an additional document of Hindu secular literature in the field of *Dharmasūtras*, *Arthaśāstras* or *Nītiśāstras* :