Finished this, was a bit bored with it by the end but as a whole still worth reading. This is another one where I rejected the Oxford World's Classics edition (Patrick Olivelle) in favor of this Penguin one (Chandra Rajan). Imo Rajan seemed like they had more respect for their readers than Olivelle.

I was considering reading the Code of Manu as an influence to this, but think I'm going to not. The reception of that one has a lot of controversy tied to it - I can't navigate it.