The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t6.7

c11.s1.t6.7

However, Smith reiterated his position to the effect that the contents of the *Arthaśāstra* described the "state of things as existing immediately before the establishment of the Maurya Empire." But he believed in the "possibility or probability that the existing text may contain minor interpolations of later date." He was convinced, however, that the "bulk of the book certainly dated from the Maurya period."¹