The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s8.27

c11.s8.27

The very last chapter of the *Arthaśāstra* describing the thirty-two *tantra yuktis* is a good illustration of the grammatical mood and ultralogical classifying mentality in which the treatise often appears to us. All these philosophical and logical aspects, be it observed once more, can tally quite well with the profoundly realistic, objective, statistical and statemanlike grasp of the realities of flesh and blood that constitute the seven-limbed (*saptāmga*) organism known as the state.