The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.213

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oentury A.D. Kâmandaka versified portions of the Kauṭilīya in his celebrated Nītisāra or Essence of Policy.¹ The Agni and Matsya Purāṇas quote whole sections from Kâmandaka. He is likewise profusely drawn upon by later legal writers and commentators, poets and story-tellers. Śaṅkarārya wrote a commentary on Kâmandaka.² In the tenth century A.D. Somadeva cried ‘back to Kauṭalya.’

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Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit