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	Minerals and Metals in Kautilya's Arthasastra
		For example, Kautilya declared that 'mines were the very source from which springs all temporal power for the strength of government and the earth, whose ornament is the treasury, which is acquired by means of the treasury and the army'.
		Though the authors wish to show the importance of mines and metals in the society, yet what they point to is their importance for the state and the powers that the state exercised over them.
		The Arthasastra specifies that the Director of Metals (lohadhyakasa) should establish factories for metals (other than gold and silver) viz., copper, lead, tin, vaikrntaka, arakuta or brass, vratta (steel), kamsa (bronze), tala (bell-metal) and loha (iron or simply metal), and the corresponding metal-wares.
	www.indianscience.org /essays/t_es_shah_m_minerals.shtml (1850 words)

	Vedamu.org - Vedic Literature - Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Arthasastra is a text of political science and is not primarily concerned with the society and its organization.
		What, therefore, presents in the Arthasastra as to ethics is what existed in the society at the time of its compilation, with the practical advice of the author to the king and the officers of the state to manipulate the codes of human conduct primarily to sub-serve the interests of the state.
		The Arthasastra states that the son of a brahmana born of a kshatriya woman, as that of a kshatriya born of a vaisya woman belongs to the varna of the father.
	vedamu.org /VedicLiterature/English/Ethics/KautilyaInArthasastra.asp (9958 words)

	India, 320 BCE to 120 CE
		Arthasastra means science of property and material success, and in the book this success includes political and diplomatic strategy aimed at uniting India.
		Arthasastra advises a king to be energetic, ever wakeful, to make himself accessible to his subjects and to guard against six enemies: anger, greed, lust, exuberance, hauteur and vanity.
		In Arthasastra it is claimed that aggrandizement is human nature, that a power superior in strength to another power should launch a war against that power, and that war keeps a nation's blood circulation regular.
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	Arthasastra as a treatise on Political Economy
		In the Arthasastra a clear distinction is made between revenue invested i.e.
		To drive home his point on transparency, Chanakya declares that contracts entered into when the one of the parties or the witnesses were ‘under provocation, anxiety, or intoxication, or if he was a lunatic or a haunted person’ will be declared null and void.
		The Arthasastra is also perhaps the earliest treatise known in history to recognize the collective legal rights of a group or body of people.
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	Kautiliya Arthasastra Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this book the author examines in detail and refutes the views held by many scholars that the text of Kautiliya Arthasastra was not written by a single author and that the date of its composition cannot be attributed to a single century.
		The book has been primarily written as a reply to T.R. Trautmann's Kautiliya and the Arthasastra, in which he tried to prove, with the help of statistics, that the Arthasastra was a compilation of writings by three or four authors, edited by Kautiliya.
		This author asserts that the Arthasastra was written by Kautiliya in the fourth century BC, as is generally supposed, and not in the third century AD, a view propounded by some Western as also some Indian scholars who wrote in the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.coronetbooks.com /books/kaut6036.htm (189 words)

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		He found himself most interested in accounting and took the job at Arthasastra because of an exciting opening in that field.
		The first thing will probably be to review the types of work he has done at Arthasastra, in summer jobs, and at school.
		If Harsa had not been able to switch from accounting to sales back at Arthasastra, he would have had to look outside for another job at that point or try to find a challenge in accounting.
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	The Kautiliya Arthasastra (In 3 Parts) Online Indian Book store - Bagchee’s Best sellers Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kautiliya Arthasastra is the oldest and most exhaustive treatise on the governance and administration of a state.
		Starting with the bringing up and education of the young prince, it proceeds to the appointment of ministers and the organization and functioning of various state department, including the setting up of a secret service.
		The three-part work on the Kautiliya Arthasastra was published by the University of Bombay between 1961 and 1965.
	www.bagchee.com /BookDisplay.aspx?Bkid=B10093 (303 words)

	Pakistani Defence Forum > Kautalya's Arthashastra On War And Diplomacy
		Kautilya’s Arthasastra is thus a book of political realism, a book analyzing how the political world does work and not very often stating how it ought to work, a book that frequently discloses to a king what calculating and sometimes brutal measures he must carry out to preserve the state and the common good.
		In reading his Arthasastra, we find no moral considerations other than a king doing what is right for his own people.
		In quotations from the Kangle translation of The Arthasastra, parentheses indicate insertions by the translator, and brackets indicate insertions by the author.
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		Aristotle and Pliny refer to tolls in Arabia and other parts of Asia.
		In India, before the 4th century BC the Arthasastra notes the use of tolls.
		Germanic tribes charged tolls to travelers across mountain passes.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/to/toll_road.html (1381 words)

	Kautiliya Arthasastra
		This Arthasástra is made as a compendium of almost all the Arthasástras, which, in view of acquisition and maintenance of the earth, have been composed by ancient teachers.
		Purana, Itivritta (history), Akhyayika (tales), Udaharana (illustrative stories), Dharmasastra, and Arthasastra are (known by the name) Itihasa.
		During the rest of the day and night, he shall not only receive new lessons and revise old lessons, but also hear over and again what has not been clearly understood.
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		Thereafter, he retired to lead an ascetic life and wrote the Arthasastra as a guide for Kings to properly manage a kingdom.
		The Arthasastra (by tradition written around the second century BC by Kautilya, a main mover in the establishment of Chandragupta Maurya as the founder of India's classical dynasty) attempts to combine the two.
		Nonetheless the Arthasastra ultimately falls into the second category (in which it lands with a loud thud since it is so long and heavy).
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	`Arthasastra, forerunner to customs laws'
		THE nation's Customs laws and procedures have evolved over a 2000-year period, from the times of Kautilya's Arthasastra through the Mughal period, to the British rule to the modern age.
		And a good part of this fascinating story provides the backdrop for the early days of Indian customs laws, and the customs presidencies of Bengal, Bombay (now Mumbai) and Madras (now Chennai).
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	The Hindu : dated November 27, 1953: Russian version of Arthasastra
		The 2,000-year-old Hindu classic of savvy political wisdom, Chanakya's Arthasastra, had been made available in the Russian language by Soviet Orientalists who undertook the translation, according to a Tass message received in London.
		Soviet scholars had already come out with Russian language translations of Valmiki's Ramayana and the Vyasa Mahabharata epics under the auspices of Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
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	www.hinduonnet.com /2003/11/27/stories/2003112700420900.htm (166 words)

	Sutric Aryan Invasions ( The Bible of Aryan Invasions, Vol. IV ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The minister Chanakya wrote the Arthasastra, the most important Indian treatise of politics prior to the Islamic era, at the Mauryan court.
		They were organised through `Institutes of Espionage' to which they delivered information, sometimes in cipher, and from which they received their orders.
		Even after the decline of Buddhism, the Artha-sastra remained in place as the authority on state-craft till the advent of Islam.
	www.dalitstan.org /books/bibai/bibai4.html (3287 words)

	Kautilya’s Arthasastra in the light of Modern Science & Technology
		Kautilya’s Arthasastra in the light of Modern Science & Technology
		This work studies the scientific and technological contents of the Arthasastra.
		It makes inquisitive analyses to extract the latest scientific essence of observational facts, operational techniques, perceptual awareness of discriminal and classificatory propositions and hypotheses in fields like mineralogy, gemology, mining, metallurgy, agriculture, architecture, civil engineering and environment, dealt within the treatise.
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	The worldview of the "Arthasastra" (from Indian philosophy) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The worldview of the "Arthasastra" (from Indian philosophy) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Critical studies from the point of view of modern Western thought
		Historical development of Indian philosophy > Early system building > The worldview of the “Arthasastra”
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-61619 (230 words)

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		This Volume contains 46 articles reflecting various social, political, Administrative and Philosophical aspects of the then Indian Society as reflected in the Arthasastra of Kautilya.
		Kautilya's Asrthsastra was a product of a very mature social and Political thinker and that is the reason that his thoughts defy time-countries.
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	Kamat Research Database - Kautilya [A KannadaWork]
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	Amazing Science
		The next section deals with the gem minerals and is treated more extensively than others.
		Iron prepared from South Indian magnetite or vaikrantakadhatu was wrongly believed to be a different metal.
		To read the full text > click Kautilya Arthasastra
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