The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t1.7

c11.s1.t1.7

In 1908 (July 16) lecturing at the Orientalisch-Sprachwissenschaftliche Section of the Sächsische Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Culture (Breslau) on the subject entitled "*Ueber das Kauṭilīyaśastra und Verwandtes*"¹ (On the Kauṭilīyaśastra and Allied Topics) Alfred Hillebrandt began as follows: "At the head of Indian politics stands Chāṇakya also called Viṣṇugupta with the patronymic title Kauṭilya or Kauṭalya, a descendant of Kauṭala."