The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s6.21

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c14.s6.21

The literature of creative Bengal has contributed untold springs of action for social energism. It is not surprising that a most remarkable emphasis on the dignity of man should be associated with the Vaiṣṇava poetry of Chaṇḍīdāsa (c. 1350).26a No two lines in the entire range of the world's classics can possibly vie with the following from this great poet of Bengal consecrated as they are to the apotheosis of man as the only reality or truth:

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