The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t6.4

c5.s2.t6.4

Fortified then by the consolidated opinions of two Mahāmahōpādhyāyas of no mean repute we are inclined to assign Bhāsa to a period of antiquity not earlier than the 6th century B.C. It would not be therefore unreasonable to assign to the Kauṭalīya 4th century B.C.