The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t31.2

c11.s1.t31.2

These dilettantes of the *Mahābhārata* betray in their writings that they know an *Arthaśāstra* which is not of the alleged "embryonic stage" but even more developed than the Kauṭalyan work. The grouping of facts and phenomena by mathematical figures is an instance of post-Kauṭalyan progress in political thought. The enumerations like 14 *rājadoṣas*, 8 *buddhis*, 36 *guṇas*, 8 *varṇas*, 20 *vargas*, 10 *vyasanas* derived from *kāma*, 8 *varṇas*, due to *krodha*, all point to investigations unknown to and later than Kauṭalya. Had the subject-matter of *vyasanas* acquired such a complexity in Kauṭalya's time, he, as a specialist and not a mere dilettante in politics, would have cared to insert it in his book.