The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c6.s3.5

c6.s3.5

The relativity of *Śukranīti* to the social influences may be easily presumed like that of *Manu Saṁhitā* as has been done by Elphinstone. "It is evident that it incorporates the existing laws", says he, "and any alterations it may have introduced with a view to bring them up to its preconceived standard of perfection, must still have been drawn from the opinions which prevailed when it was written." So also the influence of physical and geographical factors on the work, and consequently its "relativity" to a particular region of the earth's surface cannot be missed.