The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s3.13

c7.s3.13

While dealing with the Mohenjo Daro and the Vedic cultures it is interesting to observe that the importance of the *Purāṇas* in "pre-historic" archæology is being stressed in certain quarters. We are being told that the *Purāṇas* are but histories with dates and details, and record an uninterrupted account of more than six thousand years of India's distant past.⁹ The situation is not clear by any means. But the claims that are being advanced in favour of the *Purāṇas* do not fail to throw some light on the positivism of the early founders of Hindu culture.