The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.75

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¹ Kauṭalya, Arthaśāstra ed. Shamasastry, Book VII, pp. 261–319, 380, 407. Cf. Kāmandaka (who, according to Winternitz, lived in the 8th century A.D., and according to others in the 6th or 7th century and who based his Nītisāra almost entirely on Kauṭalya), VIII, 20, 16-17; IX, 45, 2–21, 75; X, 18–22; XVII, 2-3. Also the Agni Purāṇa, Canto CUXL. Some of the maxims of Kauṭalya are condemned by Bāṇa, in his Kādambarī, ed. Peterson, Vol. I, p. 109. For a comparison, not altogether accurate, of Kauṭalya with Machiavelli, see G. B. Botazzi, Precursori di Nicolo Machiavelli in Grecia ad in India, Kauṭalya ad Thucidide, tr. B. K. Sarkar, Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925.