A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.116

c8.s3.116

Let us conclude this section with a general account of the leading tendencies of the early Arthaśāstra thought, and its place in the history of Hindu political theory. The number and variety of these authors have, it is hoped, been sufficiently demonstrated in the course of the foregoing pages. Nevertheless it is possible, we think, to discover some uniform characteristics transcending this undeniable diversity. It thus appears that these authors, much as they were