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The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t12: Sastri, 1920-23

The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t12

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Sastri, 1920-23

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In his course of six lectures delivered at Patna University (1920-21) Haraprasad Sastri¹ asks the question, "But was the author the prime minister of Chandragupta in the fourth century B.C.?" He answers in the affirmative on the strength of the verse at the end of the last chapter which is too well known.

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¹ *Magadhan Literature* (Calcutta 1923), pp. 51, 55-56.

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Sastri believes that Kāmandaka was Kauṭalya's "direct disciple." In the *Kāmandakīnīti* the salutation to Viṣṇugupta has the following lines:

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*darśanat tasya sudriśo*
*vidyānām pāradriśvanah*
*yatkinchid upadekṣāmah*
*rājavidyāvidām matam.*

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Here the adjective, *sudriśo* (handsome), refers to Viṣṇugupta. According to Sastri, Kāmandaka does not seem therefore to be far distant in time from his great master.

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