[Y-Indology] Fwd: are canakya and kautilya are one?

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Dear Kishore,

 

Please read R.P. Kangle critical publication (I vol), translation (II) and

research part (III vol), 1961-64 many times reprinted in India. For the

first time there enough information about Arthashastra.

 

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kishore mohan <kishore_future

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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:28 PM

[Y-Indology] Re: Fwd: are canakya and kautilya are one?

 

 

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> The puranas like Bhagavata, Vishnu,vayu,matsya and perhaps, Bhavishya

> talks of Vrishala and Canakya @ vishnugupta but no artha sastra.

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> Shama sastri,Ganaptsastri,N N Law, VA Smith and KP Jayaswal held that

> the work was indeed authored by the prime minister of chandra gupta

> maurya.

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> But, Dr Winternitz, Jolly, Dr Keith and DR Bhandarkar negated this

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> Dowson's encyclopaedia of religion and mythology talks of canakya as

> a law giver and his work, Canakya sutra. But I do not think that this

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> In any case, most of the , historians agree to the identity, atleast

> because the work acts as an important source about Mauryan Kingdom.

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> But who knows really?

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