The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s5.5

c5.s5.5

The political history is summarized by him as also showing that the Indian people by no means spent their days in inactive brooding (*in tatenlosem Hinbrüten*). In pre-and post-Christian times were established Empires (*Reiche*) in India which exceed all political forms on European soil in area (*an Ausdehnung alle staatlichen Gebilde auf europäischem Boden übertreffen*). Lüders refers to the comprehensive political manual of Kauṭalya in which *der Verwaltungsapparat eines riesigen Reiches wie das der Mauryas bis in alle Einzelheiten hineingeschildert wird* (the administrative machinery of a gigantic Empire as that of the Mauryas is described in all its details). Incidentally be it observed that to Lüders the "Kauṭalya problem" does not seem to exist as an unsolved question.