The Narada, Katyayana, Yajnavalkya and Brihaspati Smritis are generally associated with which period?
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The Narada, Katyayana, Yajnavalkya and Brihaspati Smritis are broadly associated with the Gupta or early post-Gupta legal and social milieu, though individual texts developed over time. This question belongs to the Gupta and post-Gupta phase, a period reconstructed through inscriptions, coins, monuments, literary works, scientific texts and accounts of foreign travellers. A reliable answer must connect the named ruler, author, work, institution, title or event with the correct chronology and source. The Gupta age is often described as a classical or golden age because of important achievements in Sanskrit literature, temple architecture, sculpture, astronomy and mathematics, but the label should not conceal regional diversity or social and political change.