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

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I think Chankya and Kautilya is same person

 

 

 

 

INDOLOGY, "Dmitriy N. Lielukhine" <lel@L...>

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> Dear Kishore,

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

(II) and

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

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> 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

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

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

gupta

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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

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

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

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Kingdom.

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[Guest guest]

This question had diskussed many times (from 1905, when KA was discovered by

Ganapati Shastri and publ., based on the Malayalam comm.). That's why I

write about critical publ. of KA. (As I remember here you can find materials

about Canakya, too).

 

Are you mean any new information about authorship of Arthashastra ?

 

Specially interesting for me. You write "prime minister" - how you imagine

this "official" in the Ancient Indian (or any other) society ?

DL

 

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kishore mohan <kishore_future

<INDOLOGY>

Saturday, June 26, 2004 4:43 PM

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

 

 

> Thnx for the reference. Basically what i m looking at is whether

> arthasastra is really written by the mauryan prime minister or not.

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> If some one has read S.R. Goyal's "Kautiliya Arthasastra Its Author

> Date and Relevance for the Maurya Period", kindly post a message.

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> kishore

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