The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t8.3

c11.s1.t8.3

Jacobi's paper of 1911 pointed out the 300 *ślokas* that are to be found in the *Arthaśāstra*. Their metre is far more classical in type than that even of the *Rāmāyaṇa*. Some of the stanzas are *triṣṭubh* in regular metre. Keith argued therefore about the "comparatively recent date" of the *Arthaśāstra*. "No such verses," said he, "are to be found in a work of the fourth century B.C." of which we have a probable date, the *Brihaddevatā*."