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Some SC\'d' ce.nturics, fro1n the time of Candragupta ?lfl\urya th.rough the fourth c. Alter six dccad«!:ti of sc.holarthif> there hu.s been no general ~ent on the date or a.ut.honh.ip of Che ArlllaJdsb'a or even on any of the major points at issue.The Arlhal.4s.Jra deals in typical or ideal s.ituntions, nnd its lncit of reference to the 1pociJicities of the llaurya.n e1n1>1ra lignifics nothing. nnd, on iocvcral points of d6tniJ, such as the six boards of five goven The h'Jtiniony or ~ftgo.sthc11es, for inst.ancc, Is fm.gmentary, in ptlt't fnbutm ~. To all of these arguments, objoctions have been raised. 1 i1IC probably of the Cu1Jta period or at most just prcvioUJ.the earliest such works (the PaRc.U.nl.a and Aryn!Qra'1 /dl cannot be firmly dated, it is usually assigned to the fourth century A.O.' No W'Ofk anttdating the Christian era mentions Kau\ilya u author or unmistakably quotes from the A.rlA"'4#11J indted.RUUWra to the Arlh.4411/ro shows that no long intm"l.l ttpatale:s the ~'O, and thou£h the K4MUMl:t.owed from the dMtn1ftl4.$lra lhan tticc-uuso: jolly nrgucs, indeed, that the Ustr11tof nrlha and k411'4 'vere developed lt\ler than the dlltlnnM4sJra, under the influcnce of the triuMt.rti and it is wtrtcd that tho Ar/JraJ4strn is inorc likely to hnvc bon.
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