The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c22.s4: IV. Arthaśāstras
The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c22.s4
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IV. Arthaśāstras
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*Arthaśāstra of Kauṭalya.* Edited by R. Shamasastry, Mysore, 1909. The Ms. came from a village near Conjeevaram in Tāmflakam—Translation by the same, Bks. I–IV, Mysore, 1908. Bks. V–XV, Ind. Antiquary, 1909-10. Complete in one work. Bangalore, 1915; second edition, 1919.
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*Jolly and Schmidt’s Edition of the Arthaśāstra*, with the Nayacandrikā Commentary on a section of the work, has been published in the Puñjāb Sanskrit Series (Lahore, 1925); Gaṇapati Śāstri’s edition with a commentary of his own in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series.
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*Kāmandaka’s* work is styled *Nitisāra* but it is for the most part a summary of Kauṭalya. The Nitisāra, with the Jayamaṅgala Commentary by Śaṅkarārya has been edited by Gaṇapati Śāstri and published in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series 1912.
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*The Bārhaspatya Sūtra* has been edited and translated by F. W. Thomas in the Puñjāb Sanskrit Series, 1921. It appeared at first in Le Museon, 1916, pp. 131–166.