The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s3.1

c7.s3.1

The Vedic-Hindu (c. 2500-600 B.C.) institutions and ideologies, especially, those of the *Atharva* and the *Brāhmaṇas*, along with the aboriginal, *Vrātya*, pre-"Aryan," non-"Aryan" and Dravidian institutions and ideologies constituted the very socioplasmic complex, so to say, out of which in the long run the *Dharma* and *Artha* literature emerged. Thus considered, some of the passages in *Śukranīti* as of other texts of political, economic and sociological thought can be traced back to these "Aryan" or "Aryo-Dravidian" foundations of Hindu civilization.