The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s5.1

c14.s5.1

The entire *Purāṇa* literature should be taken as having assumed an almost final shape in the previous period, i.e., from Harṣa to Hemādri. But in the Moslem *milieu*, i.e., from the beginnings of the fourteenth to the beginnings of the nineteenth century new socio-cultural conditions must have furnished authors with inspiration for additions, alterations and modifications. It will take quite a long time to disentangle these new incorporations in each *Purāṇa* and assign to each its time and space value, i.e., the period and the region.