The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.62

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be correct. But of the two Kauṭalya is preferable. That is the form which occurs in the Alur Inscription of Vikramāditya V of the tenth century A.D. (Ep. Ind., XVI, No. 7), and also in another inscription of the thirteenth century A.D. (Indian Historical Review, 1925, pp. 569, 786). The name is not, as some scholars have supposed, a nickname signifying ‘false’ or ‘fraudulent.’ For the matter of that, as has been pointed out, Sunaśepa means ‘dog’s tale’ and Divodāsa, ‘time-server.’