A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.85
A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.85
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c10.85
Like Kauṭilya the canonical authors of this period urge the king's appointment of ministers and other officers whose qualifications and employment they describe in some detail.§ They lay down, moreover, rules after Kauṭilya’s fashion for the king’s consultation with his ministers. In this connection it should be noticed as a further illustration of the connection between *Arthaśāstra* and canonical thought that Manu discovers the *rationale* of a civil service in the very nature of government,† while Bhīṣma declares sovereignty to have espionage for its root and deliberation for its essence.