The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t3.13

c14.s9.t3.13

The expansion of such *adharmas* or vices furnishes the *rationale* for the composition of the *Nītiprakāśikā*. We are told that everybody is behaving like the Śūdras and that the kings are no better than thieves. The situation then calls for the promulgation of political science. The story has of course been placed by the author in the hoary antiquity of King Janamejaya of Takṣaśīlā. But the incidents itemized in the treatise leave no doubt that the author is quite a modern fellow and is describing the conditions round about himself.