The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s2.11

c9.s2.11

It is not necessary to be monistic enough to describe the *Atharva Veda* as nothing but a document of economic ideas and institutions. But such verses, and their name is legion, should compel indologists to banish from their mentality the ultra-Hegelian and romantic conception of Vedic literature as being nothing but religious, metaphysical or mystical. It is only necessary to be adequately oriented to Vedic positivism at the threshold of investigations into the literature and life of the thousand years previous to the rise of powerful kingdoms in the age of Bimbisāra, Mahāvīra, and Sākya the Buddha.