Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.24

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.24

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c4.t2.24

⁴ According to Kautilya, Arthaśāstra, I, 5, the prince had to learn alphabet (lipi) and mathematics (samkhyāna) after the 3rd year. After the 11th he had to study the triple vedas ānvikṣiki (philosophy) and vārtā (economics) and daṇḍanīti (politics). When these were completed, it is not expressly said. See Dikshitar, The Mauryan Polity, p. 102.

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit