The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.132

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¹ Ibid., 32-37. For the prince's education, comprising theology, philosophy, traditional learning, history, politics, administration, 'science of wealth,' military science dealing with elephant forces, cavalry, chariots, armoury, Ibid., pp. 10-11. Kauṭalya's saying that kingship knew no kinship is identical with the saying of the Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr, in the 17th, century A.D. See the Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Rogers and Beveridge), pp. 52-54, Motamad Khān, Iqbāl-nāmā, 10-11. David Price's version of the Jahāngīrnāma (p. 66, Bangabāsī edition, pp. 114-115) has a long discourse on 'kingship knows no kinship' which reminds one of Kauṭalya.