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CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
The Catalogue of the India Office in London 1
which lists Cāṇakya editions published until 1929
registered ninety-eight editions of Canakya texts. This
Catalogue is far from complete. And how many editions:
appeared after 1929? It is clear, therefore, that it is.
completely impossible to study and analyse all the
Cāṇakya editions.2
17. This author has collected and studied one
hundred and fifty-nine Cāṇakya editions and analysed
ninety-four of them; in addition he has studied seventy-
four MSS. and analysed forty-eight of them; of these
MSS. over forty have never been studied or described.
before.
3.
On the basis of the analysis of this vast amount of
raw material, the author in 1956 divided all the texts.
of collections of Canakya maxims into six versions, ³.
namely the Vṛddha Cāṇakya, textus ornatior (CV), the
Vṛddha Cāṇakya, textus simplicior (Cv), the Cāṇakya-
rāja-nīti-śāstra (CR), the Cāṇakya-nīti-śāstra (CN), the
Cāṇakya-sāra-samgraha (CS) and the Laghu Cāṇakya.
(CL).4
¹ vol. II, pt. II, rev. ed., Sanskrit Books by Prana Natha and
Jitendra Bimala Chaudhuri, Section I, London, 1938.
2 I spent several days in the India Office Library in London
but many of the editions mentioned in the Catalogue, unfortu-.
nately, could not be found.
3 Akten des XXIV Internationalen Orientalisten Kongresses,
München, pp. 544-6. The basis of the division into six versions.
is also given there.
4 The reconstructed texts of these six versions are being pub-
lished by the Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute under
CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
The Catalogue of the India Office in London 1
which lists Cāṇakya editions published until 1929
registered ninety-eight editions of Canakya texts. This
Catalogue is far from complete. And how many editions:
appeared after 1929? It is clear, therefore, that it is.
completely impossible to study and analyse all the
Cāṇakya editions.2
17. This author has collected and studied one
hundred and fifty-nine Cāṇakya editions and analysed
ninety-four of them; in addition he has studied seventy-
four MSS. and analysed forty-eight of them; of these
MSS. over forty have never been studied or described.
before.
3.
On the basis of the analysis of this vast amount of
raw material, the author in 1956 divided all the texts.
of collections of Canakya maxims into six versions, ³.
namely the Vṛddha Cāṇakya, textus ornatior (CV), the
Vṛddha Cāṇakya, textus simplicior (Cv), the Cāṇakya-
rāja-nīti-śāstra (CR), the Cāṇakya-nīti-śāstra (CN), the
Cāṇakya-sāra-samgraha (CS) and the Laghu Cāṇakya.
(CL).4
¹ vol. II, pt. II, rev. ed., Sanskrit Books by Prana Natha and
Jitendra Bimala Chaudhuri, Section I, London, 1938.
2 I spent several days in the India Office Library in London
but many of the editions mentioned in the Catalogue, unfortu-.
nately, could not be found.
3 Akten des XXIV Internationalen Orientalisten Kongresses,
München, pp. 544-6. The basis of the division into six versions.
is also given there.
4 The reconstructed texts of these six versions are being pub-
lished by the Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute under