The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s3.8

c7.s3.8

These pioneering races and regions are to a certain extent the races and regions of *Purāṇa*, *Mahābhārata*, and *Rāmāyaṇa* fame also. It is in and about the activities of the group-life of these regions and races, i.e., about their "social metabolism" of all forms and orders, that some of the political, economic and social institutions and ideals of the *Purāṇas* and the Epics were developed.