Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.77

c47.77

To attribute the sense of the translation cited to the *śloka* is little short of sacrilege. And to attribute the sense to the commentator of the Artha-Śāstra is to attribute madness to a Hindu writer of Hindu times. Any one in whose veins ran the culture and tradition of "the Śāstras" could never mean in sound mind what has been fathered on the author of the Śloka.¹