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CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
acknowledged that they had drawn upon (taken
from 'uddhṛta) different śāstra-s (nānāśāstra); this sup-
ports the inference that they were to a great extent.
compilations. The fact however that the same
maxims were found very often in one or another
collection of maxims and, particularly, in more than one
version of Canakya's maxims seems to prove that the
particular maxim was rightly attributed to Cāṇakya,
though it does not prove that such a maxim, if found.
also in other sources of Sanskrit literature, was borrowed.
from the latter source; very often the opposite occurred..
9. Sometimes no direct borrowing' occurred,.
but the author or compiler of a collection of Cāṇakya
maxims built around a well-known maxim a new one; 2:
sometimes from a short sūtra he formed a highly elab-
orated kavya aphorism.³ Very often the collections.
contain new versions of previously known aphorisms or
maxims, or combinations of two well-known aph-
orisms or maxims, e.g. the first two pāda-s from.
one and the third and fourth pāda-s from another
aphorism or maxim.
10. It has been said before that collections of
aphorisms and maxims attributed to Canakya have
become compilations of aphorisms from various sources.
gathered without any leading principle. This.
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1 cf. N. N. Law, op. cit., P. xix.
2 For instance very often in CNN.
3 It occurred quite often in the CR version. Cf. also CKr,,
P. 35.
CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
acknowledged that they had drawn upon (taken
from 'uddhṛta) different śāstra-s (nānāśāstra); this sup-
ports the inference that they were to a great extent.
compilations. The fact however that the same
maxims were found very often in one or another
collection of maxims and, particularly, in more than one
version of Canakya's maxims seems to prove that the
particular maxim was rightly attributed to Cāṇakya,
though it does not prove that such a maxim, if found.
also in other sources of Sanskrit literature, was borrowed.
from the latter source; very often the opposite occurred..
9. Sometimes no direct borrowing' occurred,.
but the author or compiler of a collection of Cāṇakya
maxims built around a well-known maxim a new one; 2:
sometimes from a short sūtra he formed a highly elab-
orated kavya aphorism.³ Very often the collections.
contain new versions of previously known aphorisms or
maxims, or combinations of two well-known aph-
orisms or maxims, e.g. the first two pāda-s from.
one and the third and fourth pāda-s from another
aphorism or maxim.
10. It has been said before that collections of
aphorisms and maxims attributed to Canakya have
become compilations of aphorisms from various sources.
gathered without any leading principle. This.
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1 cf. N. N. Law, op. cit., P. xix.
2 For instance very often in CNN.
3 It occurred quite often in the CR version. Cf. also CKr,,
P. 35.