The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t6.1

c14.s9.t6.1

An entirely new milieu is furnished by his contemporary, Mitra-Miśra, another Northerner like himself. Mitra-Miśra is a "modernist." To him the past has virtually buried its dead. He appreciates as a rule all those literary men who have risen in post-classic ages and written for their generations. The classics he does not hate. But he does not make any special propaganda in their favour. To him the *Purāṇas* embody the spirit of the age, and in the *Purāṇas* he sees the classics reborn or reinterpreted, modernized and popularized. Mitra-Miśra's work enables us to feel the breath of the generation in which he lives.