The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.t2.10

c7.s16.t2.10

The respect for personality and individual valour, the Buddhist *viriya*, the *parākrama* of the Gupta inscriptions that finds expression in this and similar passages of the *Atharva Veda* and other Vedic texts furnished the atmosphere of energists and enabled them to look for chances wherever there was a muddle. And in the sphere of energism and individualism the *Sūdra* and the *Vrātya* found the world as wide for themselves as the *Ārya*.