The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t34: Kauṭalya and Vātsyāyana

c11.s1.t34.1

Jolly has traced parallelisms and identities between Vātsyāyana and Kauṭalya and on that strength considers the author of the *Arthaśāstra* to be at the most a century older than the author of the *Kāmasūtra*. According to Meyer this sort of arguing *steht rein in der Luft* (exists purely in the air), i.e., has no solid foundation whatever. In regard to Vātsyāyana, Meyer agrees with Jacobi whose contributions to Kauṭalyalogy he appreciates as on the whole still valuable (*Ueber die Echtheit des Kauṭilya*, 1912).