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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
 
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
 
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