The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c13.s1.20

c13.s1.20

In order to arrive at a fuller understanding of Kauṭilya's problem and its context, we must first try to find out more about the nature of the festival that seems to lie at the root of the auditing process. In this way, we may be able to understand what opening the festival offered for the intended transformation into a bureaucratic procedure.