Synopsis Not much was known of this invaluable treatise till Dr. Gustav Oppert translated the ancient Sanskrit work in 1882. The translated work commanded so much attention of the scholars from around the world that an introduction to this work had to be made into a separate work for a wider circulation, and which came to be known as "The positive background of Hindu Sociology" and contained a discussion on the date and the locale of the treatise. Dr. Oppert's greatly sought-after work, titled "On the weapons, Army Organisation, and political maxims of the ancient Hindus", was largely the outcome of this treatise. Sukraniti forms volume thirteen of the famous series, "The Sacred Books of the Hindus.