The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t27.2

c11.s1.t27.2

Kauṭilya is by all means a “Paṇḍit,” a scholar addicted to his technique of classification and so forth, as Winternitz remarks. The Indian tradition says so. Why should not this tradition possess a greater validity, asks Meyer, than the demands of the moderns who expect or believe that a “Paṇḍit” could not be a “statesman?” How do we know that this famous Chancellor of Chandragupta was or must have been something different?