The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s6.4

c14.s6.4

The successive stages in the evolution of Hindu literature,—in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, etc.,—have been labelled with the hall-mark of one or other of the metaphysico-religious systems, e.g., Vedic, Upaniṣadic, Śaiva, Buddhist, Tāntric, Vaiṣṇava, Jaina, Śākta, etc. The entire literary material of India is generally presented to the world as the hand-maid of creeds, dogmas and rituals.