The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s1.10

c9.s1.10

To a certain extent the problems of Hellenic culture from the earliest pre-Homeric and Homeric times down to Lycurgus of Sparta (c 650 B.C.) and Solon of Athens (c 550 B.C.) may be taken as parallel to those of Vedic and pre-Vedic culture down to Bimbisāra, Mahāvīra and Sākyasimha (c 550 B.C.). The subsequent periods in Greece and India for about two centuries were likewise more or less similar both in form and content. The Socratic, post-Socratic, and Sophistic speculations down to Aristotle and Alexander (c 300 B.C.) might be easily treated as synchronous with the Upaniṣadic and post-Sākyan or "Buddhist" and other speculations of the Hindus down to Kauṭalya and Chandragupta Maurya (c 300 B.C.).