The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s9.1

c10.s9.1

In a survey of Hindu political literature Asoka's Edicts cannot but have an important place. As a rule, they are ransacked by indologists for references to political history. Recently these have been attacked also for the study of administrative institutions. Nay, the problems of Kauṭalyalogy have compelled scholarship to attempt discovering the points of terminological contact between the *Arthaśāstra* and the Edicts.¹⁸