The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t3.14

c14.s9.t3.14

The author of the *Nītiprakāśikā* assumes on the part of the readers the knowledge of the entire science of politics as developed up to his time. He talks glibly of all the categories known to the Hindu theorists in the course of eight verses (chapter I. 49-56) without caring to spend a minute on any of these categories in order to explain them. Besides, he has a fixed arithmetical number attached to each, which indicates how stereotyped *Nītiśāstra* had grown to be in the author's generation. The categories mentioned as well as the number indicated by the author are given below: