The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t3.20

c14.s9.t3.20

This perhaps is the immediate cause of promulgating *dhanurveda* or the science of archery. The special feature of the *Nītiprakāśikā* is its military chapters. No matter what be the actual races against whom military preparedness is in view, the treatise owns its origin to a period of warfare and war-mindedness. The work shows the progressiveness and adaptability of the Hindu mind to new conditions. The *Nītiprakāśikā* is a fine specimen of Hindu authors changing the form and matter of their composition when necessary and presenting something very timely and uptodate, nay, entirely new although under old titles. The object of the author is just to militarize the people, as it were, overnight. He has accordingly prepared what is nothing but a military manual. And as for the ordinary topics of *nīti-śāstras*, he has not ignored them but devoted to them just enough attention to entitle the treatise to being described as a contribution to political science.