The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s8.25

c11.s8.25

Last but not least, the anti-tradition group is not adequately oriented to the implications of its admission that the *Arthaśāstra* is the work of a scholar (Paṇḍit). In so far as it is such a work it cannot and ought not as a matter of course to be called in for evidence for the objective account about social, economic, legal or political conditions. Every attempt on this basis is likely to be *ultra vires*.