The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s2.1

c11.s2.1

According to Breloer Kauṭalya's work is unique in the Indian culture-world. It is characterized by *Vollständigkeit*, completeness or integrity as a system of public law comprising also, as it does, private law. It is also a postulate with Breloer that there is a large number of constant factors running through all the ages of Hindu polity. The question about the author's personality or name is said therefore to possess hardly any importance in the light of these circumstances. Because of this reason it should be more attractive, says he, to treat the *'Arthaśāstra* as the starting point of discussion on Hindu administration than fight over the question as to whether the treatise was written by the Bismarck of ancient India, the Iron Chancellor of Kaiser Chandragupta, the unifier of India or by some other named or unnamed Anonymus like nearly all the works of Indian literature.¹⁷