State and Government in Ancient India c12.s8.9

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c12.s8.9

Our political writers realised that idleness is usually responsible for frivolity and have therefore prescribed a very exacting time table for the king, which hardly left him any leisure. In the king's time table as prescribed in the *Arthaśāstra* hardly six hours are allotted for recreation and sleep (I. 19). The time-table prescribed by Śukra is equally exacting (I. 275-283).

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit