The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t2.1

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Like the *Mudrārākṣasa*, the *Panchatantra* also had been popular with German indologists in connection with *Nīti* philosophy. The bearings of the *Panchatantra* on the Kauṭalya question were considered to be very substantial and even decisive. A leading authority on the *Panchatantra*, Hertel, was therefore naturally interested in the *Arthaśāstra*. His "Literarisches aus dem Kauṭilīyaśāstra" (Literary Data from the Kauṭilya) was published in the *Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes*, vol. XXIV of Vienna in 1910.