The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s2.7

c9.s2.7

The poets of the *Atharva Veda* likewise are not often carried away by extra doses of idealistic imagination. In IV, 11 we read certain things such as might inspire a Marxist to discover the "economic interpretation of history." The draft-ox is there described as "sustaining the earth and sky." He "sustains the wide atmosphere." He "sustains the six directions." He has "entered into all existence." "With his feet treading down debility, with his thighs extracting refreshing milk, with weariness go the draft-ox and the ploughman unto sweet drink."