The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s1.20

c9.s1.20

While it is extremely difficult to avoid using the term Vedic in a generic manner as covering practically everything from the *Samhitā* to the *Upaniṣad* and the *Sūtra* it should be proper always to mark out the precise text and let it speak for itself. One word, "Vedic", must not be permitted to cover the most varied transformations or revolutions, racial and social, institutional as well as ideological, that took place in Northern India during nearly one thousand years from Sudāsa to Bimbisāra.