Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s20.6

c11.s20.6

It has been said that no writer earlier than A.D. 300 is definitely known to allude to Kauṭilya ; but the Girnār inscription of Rudradāman (A.D. 150) knows of *praṇaya*, *viṣṭi*, and other technical terms in the sense in which they are employed by him, and the Tolkāppiyam the earliest extant Tamil grammar, borrows the whole list of *Tantrayuktis* given at the end of the *Arthaśāstra* and adopts them with very minor and insignificant changes.