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Introduction
admiration for Kautilya. He pays homage to the
illustrious Viṣṇugupta (Kautilya) who churned up
the nectar in the form of the science of politics
(Nītiśāstra) from the ocean of Arthasāstra (i.e., the
vast lore of Politics). This is in reality a summary
of the work of Kautilya in verse form. Except
Kautilya'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.
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Other Technical Works on Politics
The Sukraniti, 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 Nitivakyāmṛta 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 Abhilaşi-
tārthacintāmaṇi of Someśvara (1331 A.D.), Yukti-
kalpataru of Bhoja (1025 A.D., Rajanitikalpataru
of Laksmīdhara (1125 A.D.), Rajaniitkāṇḍa of
Devanabhaṭṭa (c. 1300 A.D.), Rajanitiratnākara
of Candeśvara (c. 1325 A.D.), Nītimayukha of Nīla-
kantha (c. 1625 A.D.), Rājanītiprakāsa of Mitra miśra
(c. 1650 A.D.) and the Manasollasa of the Calukyan
King Someśvara (1125-1138 A.D.), which is more
15. nitiśāstrāmṛtaṁ śrīmān arthaśāstra mahodadheḥ ya
uddadhre namastasmai vişnuguptaya vedhase (Kaman-
dakiya Nitisūra. I.6).
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admiration for Kautilya. He pays homage to the
illustrious Viṣṇugupta (Kautilya) who churned up
the nectar in the form of the science of politics
(Nītiśāstra) from the ocean of Arthasāstra (i.e., the
vast lore of Politics). This is in reality a summary
of the work of Kautilya in verse form. Except
Kautilya'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.
17
Other Technical Works on Politics
The Sukraniti, 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 Nitivakyāmṛta 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 Abhilaşi-
tārthacintāmaṇi of Someśvara (1331 A.D.), Yukti-
kalpataru of Bhoja (1025 A.D., Rajanitikalpataru
of Laksmīdhara (1125 A.D.), Rajaniitkāṇḍa of
Devanabhaṭṭa (c. 1300 A.D.), Rajanitiratnākara
of Candeśvara (c. 1325 A.D.), Nītimayukha of Nīla-
kantha (c. 1625 A.D.), Rājanītiprakāsa of Mitra miśra
(c. 1650 A.D.) and the Manasollasa of the Calukyan
King Someśvara (1125-1138 A.D.), which is more
15. nitiśāstrāmṛtaṁ śrīmān arthaśāstra mahodadheḥ ya
uddadhre namastasmai vişnuguptaya vedhase (Kaman-
dakiya Nitisūra. I.6).
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Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN