The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t7.3

c11.s1.t7.3

Fleet refers to "competent judges," without naming any, according to whom "the existing text is perhaps not absolutely word for word that which was written by Kauṭilya." But he has no doubt that here we have essentially a work which was composed by Kauṭalya "in the period stated above."