State and Government in Ancient India c8.s2.16

c8.s2.16

Unfortunately none of these books have survived to our times. It appears that the material contained in some of them was incorporated in the Rājadharma section of the Śāntiparvan of the *Mahābhārata* and that the others were superseded and thrown into the background by the masterly work of Kauṭilya. Some of them, however, existed down to the 9th century; for a verse of Viśālāksha has been quoted in the *Bālakrīdā*, a 9th century commentary of the *Yājñavalkyasmṛiti* by Sureśvarāchārya.