[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Mauryan Polity](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932) › c5.s2.t7.8 # The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t7.8 The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t7.8 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.t7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.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 - [Previous: c5.s2.t7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c5.s2.t7.7) - [Next: c5.s2.t7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c5.s2.t7.9) - [Up: c5.s2.t7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c5.s2.t7) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c5.s2.t7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c5.s2.t7.8) · Pramāṇa