26.Ibid.,7.6.14,15,p.544.
27.SeeRogerBoesche,TheFirstGreatPoliticalRealist:KautilyaandHisArthashastra(Lanham,Md.:LexingtonBooks,2002),46;Kautilya,Arthashastra,7.13.43,7.2.16,9.1.1–16,pp.526,538,588–89.
28.按照考底利耶的观念，征服四海的统治者的王国是北起喜马拉雅山，南至大海，自东到西1000由旬（yojana，古印度长度单位，约相当于11.2公里）的地方;等于现代的巴基斯坦、印度和孟加拉国的领土之和。Kautilya,Arthashastra,9.1.17,p.589.
29.SeeBoesche,FirstGreatPoliticalRealist,38–42,51–54,88–89.
30.MaxWeber,PoliticsasaVocation,asquotedinibid.,7.
31.当时，阿育王因宣扬佛教和非暴力而受到崇敬，但他完成了征服大业之后才采纳了这些理念，用它们来加强他的统治。
32.RobertKaplan,TheRevengeofGeography:WhattheMapTellsUsAboutComingConflictsandtheBattleAgainstFate(NewYork:RandomHouse,2012),237.
33.JohnRobertSeeley,TheExpansionofEngland:TwoCoursesofLectures(London:Macmillan,1891),8.
34.SirJohnStrachey,India(London:Kegan,Paul,Trench,1888),asquotedinRamachandraGuha,IndiaAfterGandhi:TheHistoryoftheWorldsLargestDemocracy(NewYork:Ecco,2007),3.
35.JawaharlalNehru,IndiasForeignPolicy(speechdeliveredattheConstituentAssembly,NewDelhi,December4,1947),inIndependenceandAfter:ACollectionofSpeeches,1946–1949(NewYork:JohnDay,1950),204–5.
36.AsquotedinBaldevRajNayarandT.V.Paul,IndiaintheWorldOrder:SearchingforMajor-PowerStatus(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2003),124–25.
37.Asquotedinibid.,125.
38.JawaharlalNehru,SpeechtotheBandungConferencePoliticalCommittee(1955),asprintedinG.M.Kahin,TheAsian-AfricanConference(Ithaca,N.Y.:CornellUniversityPress,1956),70.
39.Agreement(withExchangeofNotes)onTradeandIntercourseBetweenTibetRegionofChinaandIndia,SignedatPeking,on29April1954,UnitedNationsTreatySeries,vol.299(1958),70.