A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.98

c8.s3.98

If in the above passages Bhāradvāja makes the king's interest, such as he conceives it to be, the rule of public policy, in another place he drops out even this specious plea and advocates the gratification of individual ambition as the goal of statecraft. Kauṭilya quotes in one part of his work a long extract from Bhāradvāja relating to the conduct of the minister (amātya) in the event of the throne falling vacant. When the king is lying on his death-bed, Bhāradvāja says, the amātya may make the high-born princes and chiefs attack one another or other