ARTHSHAASTRA

- Types of for forest. 

 (i) forests for recreational use like hunting 

{2.2.3 ,4}

(ii) economically useful ones for collecting forest produce 

like timber {2.2.5}

(iii) nearer the frontier, elephant forests,

where wild elephants could be captured {2.2.6- 16}.

Special areas were allocated in the forests for ascetics and the schools of Brahmins

learned in the Vedas {2.2.2}.

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•Society was clearly divided into two - Aryas of the four varnas and non-Aryas. 

An Arya could never be treated as a slave {3 . 13 .4}