The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s2.3

c11.s2.3

As for the data of inscriptions, they should be brought in later after the groundwork of the study on Hindu administration has been established on the basis of Kauṭalya. It would be putting the cart before the horse should one treat the *Arthaśāstra* as apocryphal and look for miserable crumbs in the wilderness of inscriptions and then triumphantly come back with them to the richly covered table of the *Arthaśāstra*, says Breloer.