History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s14.38

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The Kauṭilīya quotes five schools by name: Mānavaḥ (five times), Bārhaspatyaḥ (6 times), Auśanasaḥ (7 times), Pārāśarāḥ (4 times), Āmbhiyaḥ (once) and the following individual authors; Kātyāyana (1), Kiñjalka (1), Kauṇapadanta (4), Ghoṭakamukha (1), (Dīrgha) Cārāyaṇa (1), Parāśara (2), Piśuna (6), Piśunaputra (1), Bāhudantiputra (1), Bhāradvāja (7, once as Kaṇiṅka Bhāradvāja), Vātavyādhi (5), Viśālākṣa (6). He either differs from all these authors or they differ from each other in all the places where they are cited. All the individual authors that are cited only once occur on the same page (except Bahudantiputra). He quotes the views of *ācāryas* over fifty times and in each case differs from them. "Ācāryas" means the ancient authors on the śāstra collectively. Even the Nirukta quotes certain views as those of ācāryas. Kauṭilya is cited about 80 times. The Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyana mentions a Ghoṭakamukha and a Cārāyaṇa. Whether they are identical with the authors cited by Kauṭilya is extremely doubtful. The Mahābhārata mentions among writers on Daṇḍanīti the following who occur in the Kauṭilīya also:—Bṛhaspati, Manu, Bhāradvāja, Viśālākṣa, Śukra (the same as Uśanas) and Indra (probably Kauṭilya's Bāhudantīputra), whose abridgment of Brahmā's work is called Bāhudantaka in the Śāntiparva (chap. 59).