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admiration for Kauṭilya. He pays homage to the
illustrious Viṣṇugupta (Kauṭilya) who churned up
the nectar in the form of the science of politics
(Nītiśāstra) from the ocean of Arthaśāstra (i.e., the
vast lore of Politics).[^15] This is in reality a summary
of the work of Kautilya in verse form. Except
Kauṭilya's treatment of the republican form of
government and civil, criminal and personal law,
almost everything that we have in the Arthaśāstra
is reproduced here in a summarised verse form con-
venient for memorisation.

Other Technical Works on Politics

The Śukranīti, stuffed with varied and some-
times new informations on duties of the King, func-
tions of officials, foreign policy and art of war,
civil and judicial administration, etc., is most pro-
bably a work of the 11th or the 12th century A.D.
The Nītivākyāmṛta of Somadeva (10th C.A.D.) is
an electic work based generally on old authorities.
Politics is elaborately discussed along with other
aspects of Dharma in several works like the Abhilaṣi-
tārthacintāmaṇi of Someśvara (1331 A.D.), Yukti-
kalpataru of Bhoja (1025 A.D., Rājanītikalpataru
of Lakṣmīdhara (1125 A.D.), Rājan<error>īit</error><fix>īti</fix>kāṇḍa of
Devanabhaṭṭa (c. 1300 A.D.), Rājanītiratnākara
of Caṇdeśvara (c. 1325 A.D.), Nītimayūkha of Nīla-
kaṇṭha (c. 1625 A.D.), Rājanītiprakāsa of Mitramiśra
(c. 1650 A.D.) and the Manasollāsa of the Cālukyan
King Someśvara (1125-1138 A.D.), which is more

[^15] nītiśāstrāmṛtaṁ śrīmān arthaśāstra mahodadheḥ ya
uddadhre namastasmai viṣnuguptāya vedhase (Kāman-
dakīya Nītisāra. I.6).

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