The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t5.3

c11.s1.t5.3

In 1916 the chapters of the *Arthaśāstra* dealing incidentally with technological (chemical, medicinal and toxicological) matters were examined by Jolly in the paper on "Zur Datierungsfrage" (the Question of Dating) published in the *Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zur Göttingen*. Jolly's previous work on Hindu medicine also throws light on the question. The results of these researches were later made use of by Otto Stein in *Megasthenes und Kauṭilya* (Vienna 1922. pp. 61-63), by Hillebrandt in *Altindische Politik* (Jena 1923 p. 4), by Winternitz in his paper on "Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra" in the *Calcutta Review* (April 1924) and by Keith in *A History of Sanskrit Literature* (Oxford 1928, p. 460). These ideas were likewise summarized by Jolly in the introduction to his and Schmidt's edition of the text, vol. I. (Lahore 1923).