A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c9.16

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† Kauṭ. pp. 9-10. In translating the above extract we have adopted the version of Mr. Ramaprasad Chaṇḍa (*Indo-Aryan Races*, p. 228), which commences with the words '(Philosophy) viewing the other sciences in the light of reason.' He rightly rejects Dr. R. Shamaśāstry's translation of the above passage ('when seen in the light of reason, the science of ānvīkṣakī' etc.) on the ground of its inconsistency with the following verse in which ānvīkṣakī is said to be the lamp of all the sciences.