The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s2.t1.46

c16.s2.t1.46

The *madhyama* (the mediatory) and the *udâsîna* (the neutral) may be neglected by the Siegfried, for the time being, in his calculation of the possible array of forces directly allied or inimical to his career of conquest. The two belligerents, with the eight others (divided in equal proportion as their allies *in potentia*), are then located in the following order of *entente cordiale* by Kâmandaka¹ and Kautilya.²