The Arthashastra — Shamasastry Translation, 1915

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R. Shamasastry's first English translation of Kautilya's treatise on statecraft, rediscovered in manuscript in 1905 after seven centuries of rumor.

Public domain. Government Oriental Library, Mysore.

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