Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c17.75

c17.75

According to Hopkins, "the ultimate expansion of the theory of weapons resulted in the theory of war, and this was expanded again into a theory of polity; and we thus have on the one side our modern Nītiśāstra or system of royal polity, and on the other the practical instruction in the use of arms or the science of weapons. Thus in a late book we read: 'he will comprehend the science of weapons, and the different weapons, and the system of polity.'¹ A system of war is implied when we read, for example, of the system of Uśanas, the system of Aṅgiras' son, etc."²