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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
 

 
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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.