[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924) › c7.22 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c7.22 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c7.22 - **Language:** English ### [c7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.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Later, the terms \*Nīti\* (‘Policy’ or ‘Principles’) and \*Naya\* (‘Leading,’ ‘Principles’) seem to have superseded the old words \*Artha\* and \*Daṇḍa\*.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 - [Previous: c7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c7.21) - [Next: c7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c7.23) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c7) ## Cites (1) - [Śukranīti (Śukrācārya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.sukraniti-sukracarya) — Śukrācārya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c7.22) · Pramāṇa