The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t5.2

c11.s1.t5.2

As author of *Recht und Sitte* (Strasburg 1896), Jolly was specially interested in the laws and morals as well as manners and customs, in one word, the *mores*, as embodied in the *Arthaśāstra*. In the *Zeitschrift der* *Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft* (Leipzig) for 1913 he had a paper entitled *Arthaśāstra und Dharmaśāstra*. In 1914 his pupil Sorabji Taraporewalla's edition of Book II. of the *Arthaśāstra* with notes was published at Allahabad. Jolly's collection of parallel passages from the two sides was being published in the *Z.D.M.G.* during 1914-15 under the title of "Kollektaneen zum Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra." In one of these papers Jolly referred to the following passage in the *Daśakumāracharita* (chapter VIII): *Iyam* (Daṇḍanītih) *idānīm āchārya Viṣṇuguptena Mauryārthe ṣaḍbhih ślokasahasraih samkṣiptā*, This science of politics was "*idānīm*" (recently?) abridged by Prof. Viṣṇugupta into 6000 *ślokas* for the use of the Maurya or Mauryas. On the strength of the word *idānīm* Jolly considered the *Arthaśāstra* to be not much older than the *Daśakumāracharita* (seventh century A.C.). The position was challenged by Jacobi in the same journal for 1914 in the paper "Ist das Daśakumāracharita gleichzeitig mit dem Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra? (Is the D. of the same age as the A?). Jolly's "Textkritische Bemerkungen zum Kauṭilya Arthaśāstra" was published in the *Z.D.M.G.* during 1916-17.