The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.95

c18.95

¹ 'This *Arthaśāstra* or Science of Polity has been made as a compendium of all those *Arthaśāstras* which, as a guidance to kings in acquiring and maintaining the earth, have been written by ancient teachers' (Bk. xv, ch. 1; Shamasastry, revised English version, 1915, pp. 515–16). 'Having seen innumerable discrepancies of commentators in their commentaries on *Śāstras*, Vishṇugupta composed the aphorisms and their commentary of his own' (ibid., p. 520).