The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t2.4

c5.s2.t2.4

The data furnished in the *Arthaśāstra* do not seem at first sight to follow Pāṇini. The inference is that either the Kauṭalīya was a pre-Pāṇinīyan work or Kauṭalya rejected Pāṇini’s classification and preferred the old Vedic philology. Pāṇini’s date itself is a bone of contention among