The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t36.3

c11.s1.t36.3

In this paper Pran Nath takes *janapada* in two senses, first, as an administrative division (p. 109), and secondly, as the entire state (p. 110). Hence there is a verbal confusion in his arguments bearing on where the author of the *Arthaśāstra* is alleged to have lived.