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teachers whose views are held authoritative in the older legal 
manuals now extant. It may not be easy to identify the 
Kautiliyam Arthashastram. But it is not unlikely that some 
of the teachers mentioned in the Arthaéastra can be identified 
with some of the Brahmin wanderers mentioned in the 
Buddhist texts. 
We must not dogmatise on such a disputed question 
as this. We might perhaps find some clue to the identification 
of the wag in the fact that most of these were not the 
real nam _ but nick-names expressive of some physical 
two names mentioned in the ‘Arthashastra : the Vatavyadhi, 
the Rheumatic, and Vishalaksha, the goggle-eyed, and com- 
pare them with the two names mentioned in the Buddhist 
texts: Potthapada “ the elephantiac” and Uggahamana, “ the 
sky-gazing.”” If it be objected that similarity obtained does 
not amount to identity, our reply will be that it does not 
make much difference whether the names are identical or not. 
What we contend for is that these wanderers were exactly the 
sort of persons who cleared the path for Chanakya. We 
append below a list of the wandering teachers with illustrations 
show their attitude towards various problems of life, society 
and Philosophy. 
APPENDIX. 
Tue List or WANDERING TEACHERS AND THEIR TOPICS OF 
Discussion. 
Potthapada (The 
Rheumatig)! . . aeetonw called on him at the Hall put up 
een Mallika’s Park near Savatthi, 
whale he was staying with 300 followers. 
The etapa: of discussion was the 
B nature of sou 
haggavagotta? | Buddha ped on him at the Malla town 
called Anupiya. The subject of discus- 
sion was the behaviour of Sunakkhatta of 
an. 
Acelako Patika- the Licchavi Cl 
eartor ' .. Buddha met him at Mahavana at Vesali. 
The principal rr at of discussion was 
: Aganna (Efficte use). 
Nigrodha i. Buddha oe on rene at the pete envi 
in Ré jagaha. He had 3,000 
: 2 Des apada-Sutta, Dias ares <p S.), Vol. I. 
ghanikaya (P ites ol. III, 
ar Vol. TH, pp. 12-35. 
Dighanikaya, Vol. III, pp. 36-57. 
