The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t4.7

c11.s1.t4.7

Hillebrandt's position that the *Arthaśāstra* was the work of Kauṭalya's school and not of Kauṭalya himself was challenged by Jacobi. According to Jacobi it is hardly thinkable that Kauṭalya should have been the "founder of an 'academic school'" (*Gründer einer Gelehrtenschule*). He is prepared to believe that the Imperial Chancellor Kauṭalya "made a school," as one may say about Bismarck, "among the statesmen and diplomats" of his time. But it is difficult to believe that Kauṭalya should have established a "school for scholars."