The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.174

c14.174

In broad outline, such is the administrative system prescribed by Kauṭalya. The details which fill every chapter of his work have to be neglected for our present purpose. But that his general principles are true to facts is borne out by his affinities with Manu, the other Dharma Śāstras and inscriptions. Far in the south, the historical and political data supplied by nearly contemporary Tāmil literature tally with the Arthaśāstra. The pages of V. Kanakasabhai’s “Tāmils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago,” based on literature, often remind one of