The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t40.8

c11.s1.t40.8

Kauṭalya's work is described as *corpus juris universalis*, a collection of norms or rules, about which, however, nobody is sure as to whether it had even the power or sanction of law. But it is to be observed, says Breloer rather too naïvely for the fourth decade of the twentieth century, that in India the law-maker was neither the king nor the state but that the sayings of the old sages were interpreted by law-scholars.¹⁵