Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s1.31

c32.s1.31

10. That it knows many technical treatises *e.g.* on mining, architecture, finance, jewels, alchemy, etc. "His work is the outcome of a long period of literary activity in the field of polity rather than the production of a creative genius—another reason for not fixing its age-limit too high" (p. 33).