The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s2.40

c15.s2.40

Besides, it would be wrong to believe that the social and religious life of the people of India has been for ages governed exclusively by the texts of the *śāstras* in Sanskrit (which, *en passant*, could not escape the natural adaptation to the conditions of time and place). Indian society and culture have also really and to a powerful extent been influenced and directed by the vast mass of the different vernacular literatures, both secular and religious, that grew up side by side with, and eventually replaced, to a considerable extent, the Sanskritic storehouse.