The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s8.8

c11.s8.8

The Indian tradition about the Kauṭalyan authorship is not marred by the recognition of the second person, the Boswell, in the *Arthaśāstra* complex. Nor is the Maurya milieu of the work tampered with because of this circumstance. The suggested dichotomy into the editor and Kauṭalya does not lead us to the position of Winternitz about the negation of Kauṭalya and the Maurya origin or to that of D. R. Bhandarkar who suggests that the school may have been established and the finishing touch imparted shortly before the time of Kāmandaka, i.e., several centuries after the age of Chandragupta Maurya. In the scheme suggested in the present edition, the Indian tradition does not have to be discarded or modified in any way, because the tradition may have been created by the Boswellism of the editor. Let us go further.