My preceptor holds that quarrels or assaults of a remote date shall not be complained of.
No, says Kautilya: there shall be no acquittal for an offender.
My preceptor thinks that he who is the first to complain of a quarrel wins, in as much as it is pain that drives one to law.
No, says Kautilya; whichever is lodged first, it is the evidence of witnesses that must be relied on.
—Kautilya, in the Arthaśāstra, 13.3
