Dowson and Canakya

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kishore mohan wrote:

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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

> is identical with Artha sastra.

Dowson died in 1881, his Dictionary was first published in 1879. No

wonder he did not speak of the AS, found in 1905. It is sometimes

problem with the reprints that we forget when the text was actually

written. Long ago, someone was finding fault in H. H. Wilson's ideas of

Indian history, because he ignored the Indus civilisation. So he did,

but so what? He died in 1860. BTW, Dowson's Canakyasutra perhaps refers

to some version of the Canakyaniti tradition, later studied by Sternbach.

 

Regards,

Klaus

 

 

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