The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t5.9

c13.s3.t5.9

The author has commenced the work (I. 6) with a reference to king Kumārapāla on account of whose interest (*āgraha*) *Arhannīti śāstra* was composed. It is out of that work, evidently large in size, that Hemachandra has extracted the essence in order to prepare the *Laghu Arhannīti*. In the Jaina tradition as in the Hindu-Brāhmaṇic the role of abridgment is a literary convention, which is to be taken for what it is worth.