King Governance and Law in Ancient India Kautilya’s Arthasastra 1st Edition by Patrick Olivelle 0199891826 9780199891825
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ISBN 10: 0199891826
ISBN 13: 9780199891825
Author: Patrick Olivelle
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya’s Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AS. was described as perhaps the most precious work in the whole range of Sanskrit literature, an assessment that still rings true. Patrick Olivelle’s new translation of this significant text, the first in close to half a century, takes into account a number of important advances in our knowledge of the texts, inscriptions, and archeological and art historical remains from the period in Indian history to which the AS. belongs. The AS. is what we would today call a scientific treatise. It codifies a body of knowledge handed down in expert traditions and is specifically interested in two things: first, how a king can expand his territory, keep enemies at bay, enhance his external power, and amass riches; second, how a king can best organize his state bureaucracy to consolidate his internal power, to suppress internal enemies, to expand the economy, to enhance his treasury through taxes, duties, and entrepreneurial activities, to keep law and order, and to settle disputes among his subjects. The AS. stands alone: there is nothing like it before and there is nothing like it after.
Table of contents:
Book One: On the Subject of Training
Book Two: On the Activities of Superintendents
Book Three: On Justices
Book Four: Eradication of Thorns
Book Five: On Secret Conduct
Book Six: Basis of the Circle
Book Seven: On the Sixfold Strategy
Book Eight: On the Subject of Calamities
Book Nine: Activity of a King Preparing to March into Battle
Book Ten: On War
Book Eleven: Conduct toward Confederacies
Book Twelve: On the Weaker King
Book Thirteen: Means of Capturing a Fort
Book Fourteen: On Esoteric Practices
Book Fifteen: Organization of a Scientific Treatise
Appendix 1: Fauna and Flora
Appendix 2: Weights and Measures
Appendix 3: Geographical Names
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