Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c51.25

c51.25

⁵ Cf. Bhāradvāja, quoted and refuted by Kauṭilya in Artha-śāstra, V. 6. 95, pp. 253-4. Kauṭilya points out the immorality, the fact that the ministers do really rule, and above all the great danger of punishment by the people. Bhāradvāja was a ruthless writer. Kaṇika was his personal name. He preached, according to the Mahā-Bhārata, in Western India, to a Sauvīra king Govinda-rāja, Rāmāyaṇa A.K., 100, 39, calls his a 'crooked policy.'