Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c18.215

c18.215

Thus, on the whole, the picture of economic life and progress given in the lists of sixty-four and more *Kalās* is seen in its proper setting in the important early work of Kauṭilya, showing how the control of the State was called for and had to be exercised through so many Departments of Administration, each of which was to deal with the interests of a particular industry separately. Thus Kauṭilya figures as an early authority on the subject of *Kalās*, or Arts and Crafts.