The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.214

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¹ Rājendra Lāla Mitra, M. N. Dutt and B. K. Sarkar hold that Kâmandaka’s Nītisāra was taken to the island of Bâli, in the 4th century A.D., but Jolly (Introduction to the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra, pp. 6-8) is inclined to place the author in the 8th century A.D. Winternitz arrives at the same conclusion. See also Dr. Frederick’s Report on the Sanskrit Literature of Bâli to the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences. In the Nītisāra, see particularly I, 2-7, 11-14, 21-60; II, 61-71; IV, 33; V, 37; VII, 1-2; XXII, 93; XXXI, 54-68. ² The Cāṇakya Sūtras (vide Appendix to Shamasastry’s edition of the Arthaśāstra, 1919) is, in spite of its title, the work of some one else and is, besides, useless for our purpose ³ Āryadeva, Catuḥśatikā, pp. 462 - 464. ⁴ Tārānātha’s identification of Ārya Śūra with Aśvaghoṣa is, on internal grounds, untenable. In the Jātakamālā see Stories II and III for royal virtues and generosity, Stories VIII and IX for righteous rule and punishment, Stories X for famine relief, XIII for royal righteousness, XXXI for the picture of an ideal prince.