The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s10.t2.20

c14.s10.t2.20

The seventeenth century is very great in the output of works on law. The two cousins, Kamalākara and Nīlakaṇṭha, Mitra-Miśra, Nanda Paṇḍita and Anantadeva are some of the most remarkable names of this period. Nor must we forget Viśveśvara (1602-85), nicknamed the "Gāgā Bhaṭṭa," who officiated at the coronation ceremony of Śivāji in 1644. He is a nephew of Kamalākara. The treatise entitled *Kāyastha-dharma-dīpa* (1677) is his work in which there is an attempt to raise the Kāyasthas socially.⁷