Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s1.4

c32.s1.4

(*a*) 'the traditional accounts of K. do not refer to K. in the capacity of a teacher or author of literary compositions,'

(*b*) 'nor is his name ever mentioned by Megasthenes,'

(*c*) 'nor does the latter writer's description of India bear out the theory that he was a contemporary of K.'

(*d*) 'Patañjali in his Mahābhāshya refers to the Mauryas and to the *sabhā* of Chandragupta, he is silent about K.'

(*e*) 'K. is a mere nickname denoting falsehood or hypocrisy, which could hardly have been devised by the renowned minister of Chandragupta himself.'

(*f*) 'Nor does the character of the work stamp it the production of a statesman, filled as it is with pedantic classification and puerile distinctions, like all the Śastras composed by Paṇḍits.'