A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c9.77

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∗ Kauṭ. pp. 18-20. The three kinds of spies alluded to in the text are the religious mendicant renouncing his order (udāsthita), the ascetic (tāpasa) and the mendicant woman (bhikṣukī). It may be noted in this connection that Kauṭilya (p. 19) urges the ascetic spy deliberately to delude the people into a belief in his own extreme asceticism and gift of prophecy.