The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t6.6

c14.s8.t6.6

It is with the application of the six military attitudes (*ṣāḍguṇyasya prabhāvena*), we are told, that Śivāji's father Śāhāji reduced the whole of Karṇāṭa to submission (XI, 3). The author has a command over racy and vigorous style adapted to ballads and chronicles and has his *forte* in descriptions of wars and war-preparations. One may believe that Paramānanda had always with him Kālīdāsa's *Raghuvamśa* as his literary model. And as for some textbook of *nītiśāstra*, the author was by all means familiar with its contents. At certain points the *Śiva-bhārata* reads almost like a *nīti*-treatise in motion or historic application. In the colophons it is called an *Anu-Purāṇa*. We may call it a text book of applied politics in verse.