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to their Guru, Usanas. Then arose a second school which 
added the encouragement of commerce and industry to coercion. 
The devas belonged to this school of thought and their work 
is attributed to Vrhaspati, their Guru. The third school which 
added a fair knowledge of logic and philosophy to Rajavidya 
were the followers of Manu. Later on, a knowledge of three 
Vedas was also included in the category of kingly education. 
Canakya, after recounting all these systems and their differ- 
ences, declares himself to be in favour of the last school. This 
shows that politics as a science was developing in India many 
centuries before Alexander. Pandit Syama Sastri deserves the 
thanks of all concerned for discovering, editing and translating 
the work into English. 
e Mysore Series has published works even older than 
this. But one historically most important is a collection of 
works on the Gotras and Pravaras, i.e. the genealogy of the 
Brahmanas. It includes works on genealogy by Advalayana, 
Apastamba, Baudhayana and Katyayana—all of whom belonged 
to the later Vedic period. It has traced the growth of the 
Brahmana community from the seven or eight Rsis of the Rg. 
Veda to a period when the Gotras rose to the number 4,500. 
The work has been instrumental in solving the many riddles in 
the history of India, one of them being the origin of the Sui- 
gas. They were Brahmanas professing the Sama Veda. 
The Trivandrum Series is published under the able editor- 
ship of Pandita Ganapati Sastri, on whom the title of Mahama- 
hopadhyaya has been conferred by an appreciative and benign 
Government, and who is considered as the best person to 
adorn this time-honoured title. The works published in this 
Series are very well selected. The editions are executed with 
very great care, with short and pregnant prefaces which leave out 
nothing worth knowing. In this Series appeared a short 
synopsis of all the schools of thought in India written by an 
ancient writer, whose name however is unknown. It is dis- 
tinguished from other works of the same nature by its lucid 
and impartial summary of the four systems of Buddhist philo- 
sophy. It has published a commentary of the Amara Kosa 
written by a Banerji of Bengal in 1159. : 
The crowning success of this Series consists in the publica- 
tion of thirteen very ancient dramas some of which, the editor 
thinks, belong to the Pre-Mauryan period of Indian history, and 
he finds quotations from them even in Kautilya’s Arthasastra. 
The dramas are important not only as ancient pieces of compo- 
sition, but also as works of art, and as works of imagination. 
medizval period of Indian literature. Its importance consists 
not in what it has done, but what it promises to do. It pro- 
