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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 

 
ABBREVIATIONS
 

 
CONTENTS
 

 
A. INTRODUCTION
 

 
Cāṇakya-Viṣṇugupta-Kautilya
 

 
1. Different names of Canakya
 

 
2. Cāṇakya the hero
 

 
3. Cāṇakya the politician
 

 
4. Cāṇakya-Viṣṇugupta-Kauṭilya as the

author of the Arthasastra. Kāman-

daki on Viṣṇugupta
 

 
5. References to Cāṇakya-Vişnugupta-

Kautilya in Sanskrit literature
 

 
Collections of Maxims, Their Contents and

Authorship
 

 
6. Cāṇakya as the author of a Nītiśāstra

7. Collections of maxims attributed to
 
Cāṇakya
 

 
Cāṇakya
 
8. Place of Canakya's collections of maxims

in the gnomic literature of India;

their contents; maxims of niti and

kävya background
 

 
9. Borrowing of maxims from other sources;

building of new maxims
 

 
10. Authorship of the so-called Cāṇakya's
collections of maxims
 

collections of maxims
 
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