E(?ONOMI?$ IN ANr(?tEN2 ' INDIA osl sols tnd maintain them, unrighboous, uneoonomiosl and (pp. 19-t0. Eng. Trsn.) but also put down displeasing acts", The following outright condemnation of the science o! Ksu?lya by Bans, the author of emphatically brings out the two-fold sapeels of Ar?hsshss?rs :-- "Is there anything that is for whom the precepts, rich teachers are the Ksdsmbsri pollFl?O-OCOllOml? practice of witchcraft; to whom ministers, incl?ecl to deceive others, are councillors; desire /s ahoays for tl? goddess of be?n ca?t away by thousands of devoted to the and to whom wealtk that who application brothers, of destructive sffeotions?e wi?h always whose has soienees; ns?u. rsl, as the learned treatise ocrdial love, are fit victims to be murdered?". Then 8ukraehsrys father of all know? who is Indian ss the universally recognized statesmen and whose $hukra Nit?$ars is veritable mine of very valuable and interesting in- formation, defines Ar?hsshsstrs ss "the Science which deals with the -functions of (?vernmen? in eonso- nanco with the injunctions of the Vedas and law- books and teaches useful methods of the production and accumulation of wealth" (V. 8, 5, 6). The irnmorl?l Ks. It.class, the Shakespeare o! India, hss briefly but fol?citously remarked that writers of Arth&shsstrs deal with the three-fold ideal of lifo-duty, wealth and happi- ness. While in eontrsdiotion to the above, the lexioo- grapher Amsrs-simhs of the most renowned Amsrs- koshs has identified Arthsshsstrs with Dsnds.niti, the seienoe of .Public L?w.. With the exoeption of Amara-simha, all the other four writers, 8ukrs, 0hanakya, Bans and Kslidass, are righteous for those seionoo of Ksutilys, merciless in its in cruelty is sn authority; whose priests habitually hard-hearted with
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