The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.59

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c14.59

The author of the Arthaśāstra is also called Cāṇakya or Viṣṇugupta. Hemacandra in his Abhidhānacintāmaṇi (Bombay Edition, p. 34) and Yādavaprakāśa (Vaijayantī, ed. Oppert p. 96) also call him Drāmila. Hemacandra identifies him with Vātsyāyana, the author of the Kāmasūtra (Shamasastry, Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol. IV, pp. 210–16). The identification is not corroborated in the rest of Sanskrit literature but the resemblance in the style of the two works is striking.

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Kāmasūtra — Vātsyāyana Mallanāga, Sanskrit
Vaijayantī — Yādavaprakāśa, Sanskrit
Abhidhānacintāmaṇi — Hemacandra, Sanskrit