The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t7.8

c5.s2.t7.8

This is not all. Some more passages are borrowed from different portions of the *Arthaśāstra*. According to Hertel the Kashmirian recension of the *Pañcatantra* which bears the title *Tantrākhyāyikā* dates from about 200 B.C. It can be presumed that the *Arthaśāstra* which is repeatedly quoted must have been very familiar for a good number of years before the *Pañcatantra*. At the least an interval of a century would not be too high. Even Prof. Keith concedes that "it is however perfectly possible that the *Arthaśāstra* is an early work and that it may be assigned to the first century B.C. while its matter very probably is older by a good deal than that."²