The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s7.4

c5.s7.4

"Still more worthless for our purposes" (*noch weiter zurück an Bedeutung*) have been appraised the numerous texts which lie between the tendencies and, although very objective, exhibit but mixtures, as he says. Among such works "still more worthless for our purposes" are to be found the Brāhmaṇical stories and fable-collections (*Purāṇas*, *Hitopadeśa*, *Panchatantra*) and their Buddhist counterparts (the *Jātakas*) and the political science of Kauṭalya (p. 7).