The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t9.1

c5.s2.t9.1

In fixing the date of the composition of the *Arthaśāstra* the astronomical evidence comes in very handy. Two Indian scholars have independently examined this question and the results of their investigations have been curiously identical. These are the late Rājarāja Varma of Trivandrum and L. D. Swamikannu Pillai.¹