Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t4.33
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t4.33
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¹⁸ J., VI, pp. 475-6-GG. 1666-7; Cf. Kauṭilya, Arthaśāstra, I, p. 9, who places the purohita in the front rank of the state officials, demands of him the knowledge of the Vedas and the Vedāṅgas, and skill in reading portents, providential or accidental among other things: see also a verse from Śukra quoted by Dikshitar, op. cit., p. 127.