The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c40.s2.68

v2.c40.s2.68

Mention should perhaps be made of the argument deduced by Jacobi² from the Kauṭilīya Arthaçāstra from which he infers that the Sāṁkhya and Yoga systems were in existence as well as the Pūrva Mīmāṁsā and the materialist system of the Lokāyata by the fourth century B.C. Unhappily the evidence adduced for this is not satisfactory, as the date of the Arthaçāstra must probably³ be placed some centuries after the date of the minister of Candragupta under whose name it passes.