Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c7.22

c7.22

Later, the terms *Nīti* (‘Policy’ or ‘Principles’) and *Naya* (‘Leading,’ ‘Principles’) seem to have superseded the old words *Artha* and *Daṇḍa*. Kāmandaka calls his metrical treatise a *Nīti-sāra*. The book ascribed to Śukra, which, in its present shape is a revised edition of an earlier well-known work, probably based on the ancient Uśanas’ Daṇḍa-Nīti, is also called a *Nīti-sāra* (*Śukra-Nīti-sāra*).² The *PañchaTantra*, which is a book on politics put into fables for the early education of princes and would-be statesmen, adopts the term *Naya-Śāstra* to denote the literature.³