A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.54
A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.54
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c8.s3.54
Although the definition of Arthaśāstra was sufficiently wide to apply to monarchies as well as republics, it was the former type of State that fixed itself in the standard categories and concepts of this science.² An interesting discussion quoted by Kauṭilya[^asterisk] concerning the relative seriousness of the ‘calamities’ thereof, shows that the early authors of the Arthaśāstra accepted as an article of their political creed the category of seven elements of sovereignty.dagger These consist of the king (svāmin), the minister