[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c8.s2.62 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.62 Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.62 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.62) The second verse नवं शरावं, etc., is found in the Fourth Act of Bhāsa’s \*Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇa\* (edited and published by the late Gaṇapati Śāstri) addressed to soldiers to stimulate them to fight. Prof. S. Kuppuswami Śāstri on the authority of the \*Nayacandrika\* commentary on the \*Arthaśāstra\* seems to take the view that these verses ‘were taken from some \*Purāṇa\* in which they happened to be put into the mouth of Manu, \[Intro. \*Āścaryacūḍāmaṇi\* (Śrī Bālamanorama series, Madras), pp. 21-23.\] The commentator’s suggestion is only a conjecture which is not based on any authority. The late Pandit is therefore probably right that the \*Śloka\* in question is Bhāsa’s own quoted by Cāṇakya, the author of the \*Arthaśāstra\*. (\*Vide\* Intro. \*Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇa\*, pp. 3-4.) - [Previous: c8.s2.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.61) - [Next: c8.s2.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.63) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.pratijnayaugandharayana) — Bhāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.62) · Pramāṇa