A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c9.8

c9.8

† The above view of Kauṭilya's place in relation to the early Arthaśāstra is at variance with two theories that have doubtless in a position to know the nature of Kauṭilya's services describes (I 6) his master as having extracted the nectar of nītiśāstra out of the ocean of Arthaśāstra. This remarkable description, we think, can be justified not on the assumption of Kauṭilya's rescue of the science from oblivion, but only on the basis of his reconstruction of the same upon the old foundations.