The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s2.t8.9

c13.s2.t8.9

It is worth while to observe that Chaṇḍeśvara’s *Rājanīti-Ratnākara* was not composed while Harisimha was still reigning. It appears to have been written under King Bhaveśa who was perhaps the first ruler set up by the Tughlaks of Delhi as their feudatory. In that event Chaṇḍeśvara’s political treatise is virtually one of the first Hindu works produced under new socio-political (Hindu-Moslem) conditions. It is therefore by all means to be treated as somewhat different from the work of Hemādri.