Arthashastra | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:17 1 History of the manuscripts
00:04:35 2 Authorship, date of writing, and structure
00:07:17 2.1 Authorship
00:12:04 2.2 Chronology
00:12:46 2.3 Geography
00:14:12 3 Translation of the title
00:15:34 4 Organization
00:17:49 5 Contents
00:17:58 5.1 The need for law, economics and government
00:20:46 5.2 Raja (king)
00:21:51 5.3 Officials, advisors and checks on government
00:25:33 5.4 Causes of impoverishment, lack of motivation and disaffection among people
00:27:48 5.5 Civil, criminal law and court system
00:29:44 5.6 Marriage laws
00:31:18 5.7 Wildlife and forests
00:32:52 5.8 Mines, factories and superintendents
00:33:41 5.9 On spying, propaganda and information
00:35:40 5.10 On war and peace
00:38:40 5.11 On regulations and taxes
00:41:43 6 Translations and scholarship
00:42:08 7 Influence and reception
00:43:12 7.1 Comparisons to Machiavelli
00:45:38 7.2 Views on the role of the state
00:47:54 7.3 Views on property and markets
00:49:57 7.4 Book on strategy anticipating all scenarios
00:51:12 7.5 Realism
00:52:07 8 In popular culture
00:52:36 9 See also



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The Arthashastra (IAST: Arthaśāstra) is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit. Likely to be the work of several authors over centuries, Kautilya, also identified as Vishnugupta and Chanakya, is traditionally credited as the author of the text. The latter was a scholar at Takshashila, the teacher and guardian of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. However, scholars have questioned this identification. Composed, expanded and redacted between the 2nd century BCE and 3rd century CE, the Arthashastra was influential until the 12th century, when it disappeared. It was rediscovered in 1905 by R. Shamasastry, who published it in 1909. The first English translation was published in 1915.The title "Arthashastra" is often translated to "the science of politics", but the book Arthashastra has a broader scope. It includes books on the nature of government, law, civil and criminal court systems, ethics, economics, markets and trade, the methods for screening ministers, diplomacy, theories on war, nature of peace, and the duties and obligations of a king. The text incorporates Hindu philosophy, includes ancient economic and cultural details on agriculture, mineralogy, mining and metals, animal husbandry, medicine, forests and wildlife.The Arthashastra explores issues of social welfare, the collective ethics that hold a society together, advising the king that in times and in areas devastated by famine, epidemic and such acts of nature, or by war, he should initiate public projects such as creating irrigation waterways and building forts around major strategic holdings and towns and exempt taxes on those affected. The text was influential on other Hindu texts that followed, such as the sections on king, governance and legal procedures included in Manusmriti.