The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t7.2

c11.s1.t7.2

In the present author's judgment, however, it is rather strange that a writer should constantly name himself in his own book while he has to offer views contrary to those of others. A practice like this would be unthinkable in any country. So far as India is concerned, it is questionable if the practice existed at all. Certainly it was not a "common" practice. It is because of this "mannerism" that confidence in the Kauṭalyan authorship of the *Kauṭalīya Arthaśāstra* receives a rude shock. The passages in question will have to be ascribed to somebody other than Kauṭalya.