402 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
expression Samphappalapa (idle gossip) in its technical sense is 
used in connection with the Paribbajakas in question. Itis 
worthy of note that these wanderers are spoken of in the Buddhist 
texts in identical terms. We shall therefore remain content with 
quoting one of these stock passages throwing some light on the 
ways in which they spent their time. 
The list of topics given below discussed by them is of 
great historical importance as indicating the manner in which 
the wanderers gradually paved the way for a science of polity 
in India. 
* Now at that time Potthapada seated with the company 
of the mendicants all talking with loud voices, with shouts and 
tumult, all sorts of worldly talk: to wit, tales of kings, of 
robbers, of ministers of state, tales of war, of terror, of battles, 
talks about food and drink, about clothes and beds and garlands 
xamining carefully the import of all these Buddhist 
Passages we may perhaps go so far as to maintain that t 
of Chanakya and Vatsayana, was among the contempo 
Buddha Gautama. He was a Brahmin who naively 
virt i ¢< NT? ° ; i ajo”’).! 
uous life. (‘ N’atthi Dhammiko Paribbajo ” ) hakarayan4 
In the Buddhist texts we find that one ae was 
who was a personal attendant of King Pasenadi_of 
probably identical with Dirghascarayana, one of the P 
sors of © ya, and who was as much 
perhaps, Chanakya himself. 
‘he early Buddhist texts together with 
Upanishads introduce us to some of the distinguish 
Sn RS Ee or an 
' Majjhima Nikaya, Vol. II, p. 157. «‘ Ghotamukha-Sutta 
redeces’ 
a kingmaker ps a4 
some of the : 
” (p.T.S.)- : 
