The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t32.2

c11.s1.t32.2

In a paper contributed to the *Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft*, Vol. XLI., Jolly has asserted that the *Arthaśāstra* is "a work of the third century after Christ, perhaps still later, because of the references to alchemy and gold-making." There is nothing in the world, says Meyer, to prevent us from believing that these arts may have been known in India in earlier ages although perhaps in another and more primitive form.