Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c7.21

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¹ For the date of the Śānti-Parvan see my *Tagore Lectures*, I. The authors who are treated as historical persons in Kauṭilya's Artha-Śāstra have been taken to be divine and mythological in the Śānti P. The Śākas and the Tokharis are mentioned as having come under Hindu kings (Ch. lxv)—a fact of the early fifth century A. C. It should be also noticed that the political science book of the ‘Great Rishis’ which had been current in the time of Kāmandaka (viii. 23) disappeared when the Śānti Parvan was completed (c. 343, 52, Kumb.)