A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.37

c8.s3.37

Kāmandaka, indeed, expressly styles them as such.∗ Since the Arthaśāstra is, from the first, connected with the institution of the monarchic State, it follows that there is a general agreement of the canonical as well as the secular writers concerning the nature of the science. This shows that the definition of Daṇḍanīti was not introduced by Kauṭilya, but it went back to the old authors of the Arthaśāstra.