A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.64
A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.64
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§ The rule of chance indeed is not altogether eliminated. Both Kauṭilya (p. 321) and Kāmandaka (XXI 18-21), e.g., divide the ‘calamities’ befalling the component elements of sovereignty into two kinds, namely, the providential and the human. In another place (p. 260) Kauṭilya states that the three-fold status of a kingdom, namely, its decline, stagnation and progress, is determined by good and bad policy as well as by good and evil fortune, for both providential and human causes govern the world.
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- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit