The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s10.t2.1

c14.s10.t2.1

Raghunandana's *Aṣṭāviṁśatitattva* may have been composed about 1570. He is said to have been a fellow-pupil of Chaitanya (1485-1534) under Vāsudeva Sārvabhauma and may have been his junior contemporary and a senior contemporary of Akbar the Great and Abul Fazl. He is by all means anterior to Nīlakaṇṭha and Mitra-Miśra. The *smriti* encyclopaedia of this Bengali jurist may be taken to represent the ideas of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.²