The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t6.2

c14.s9.t6.2

The *Rājanītiprakāśa* of Mitra-Miśra³ is another "virtually" dated work because its author is known in the colophons (pp. 195-196, 493) to have been associated as scholar with the court of Vīrasiṃhadeva (reigned 1605-1627), son of Madhukarasāha, and grandson of Mahārājādhirāja Pratāparudra, King of Orchchha. Vīrasiṃha also is known to have killed Abul Fazl, the minister of Akbar and the author of *Ain-i-Akbari*. The work then belongs to the first half of the seventeenth century and points to the philosophical and cultural milieu of the Hindus in the most brilliant epoch of the great Moghuls.