The Mauryan Polity c13.2

c13.2

An endeavour is made here to examine briefly the differences and the similarities between Megasthenes’ *Fragments* and the *Kauṭalīya* and see how the differences so called are really minor and mostly imaginative. A comparison is instituted here as it falls within the scope of the present work. In this particular the plan followed is to a large extent that of Otto Stein in his *Megasthenes und Kauṭilya*¹ where he has exhaustively dealt with this question.