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Vişnugupta, i.e. Cāṇakya, compiled¹ for [Candra-
gupta] Maurya a dandaniti [containing] six thousand
śloka-s).
CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
The latter passage was first referred to by
Brockhaus in a communication read in 1846 in the
Königliche Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
zu Leipzig, entitled Über die gnomischen Dichter
Südindiens. Later on, it was analysed more carefully
by A. Weber in 1864.³ In 1873 it was referred to by
J. Klatt who based the reference of this sentence on
Weber's communication; 4 in 1887 by E. Monseur,5
in 1906-7 by O. Kressler,6 in 1911 by E. Bartoli,' in
1926 by J. van Manen, D. R. Bhandarkar and P. V.
Kane, in 1935 by P. L. Bhargava,10 and later by
many others. These two statements, and particularly
Dandin's reference to 6000 śloka-s, gave rise to long
discussions, since Kautilya's Arthaśāstra, though com-
posed of 15 adhikarana-s, 150 adhyaya-s and 180
8
1 Samkṣipta
than 'wrote '.
2 Berichte über die Verhandlungen der königlichen Sächsischen Gesell-
schaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, I, Leipzig, 1848, p. 62.
means
means
3 CNW, p. 401.
4 CKI, p. 14.
5 CM, p. xii.
6 CKr, p. 13.
7 CNF,
P. xi.
C
(
compiled or ' summarized' rather
3
8
op. cit., p. xiv.
9
ABORI, 7, pp. 65 sqq. and 85 sqq.
10 Chandragupta Maurya, Lucknow, 1935, p. 89.
11 O. Botto, L. Sternbach, F. Wilhelm and many others.
18
Vişnugupta, i.e. Cāṇakya, compiled¹ for [Candra-
gupta] Maurya a dandaniti [containing] six thousand
śloka-s).
CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
The latter passage was first referred to by
Brockhaus in a communication read in 1846 in the
Königliche Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
zu Leipzig, entitled Über die gnomischen Dichter
Südindiens. Later on, it was analysed more carefully
by A. Weber in 1864.³ In 1873 it was referred to by
J. Klatt who based the reference of this sentence on
Weber's communication; 4 in 1887 by E. Monseur,5
in 1906-7 by O. Kressler,6 in 1911 by E. Bartoli,' in
1926 by J. van Manen, D. R. Bhandarkar and P. V.
Kane, in 1935 by P. L. Bhargava,10 and later by
many others. These two statements, and particularly
Dandin's reference to 6000 śloka-s, gave rise to long
discussions, since Kautilya's Arthaśāstra, though com-
posed of 15 adhikarana-s, 150 adhyaya-s and 180
8
1 Samkṣipta
than 'wrote '.
2 Berichte über die Verhandlungen der königlichen Sächsischen Gesell-
schaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, I, Leipzig, 1848, p. 62.
means
means
3 CNW, p. 401.
4 CKI, p. 14.
5 CM, p. xii.
6 CKr, p. 13.
7 CNF,
P. xi.
C
(
compiled or ' summarized' rather
3
8
op. cit., p. xiv.
9
ABORI, 7, pp. 65 sqq. and 85 sqq.
10 Chandragupta Maurya, Lucknow, 1935, p. 89.
11 O. Botto, L. Sternbach, F. Wilhelm and many others.