The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t1.6

c14.s9.t1.6

The readers are thus presented with a psychological or logical analysis of the subject matter. This analytical method ought by all means to be appreciated. It is questionable if we can often speak of Chaṇḍeśvara as furnishing the historical evolution of ideas. He has not cared to follow the strictly chronological order. Let us take ch. V. which discusses the *Sabhā*, Council or Court of Justice. His first authority is Hārīta, then comes Brihaspati, then Manu, Nārada, Viṣṇu, Nārada again, Lakṣmīdhara, Kātyāyana, Vyāsa, Brihaspati again, Nārada a third time, Kātyāyana again, Manu again, Nārada the fourth time. Chaṇḍeśvara's strength lies in the analysis of ideas. If to this were added the choronological or historical presentation we might get the medieval analogue of, say, a work like Cannan's *Review of Economic Theory* (London 1929).