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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is the Textual History of the Arto Shastra So Complex?

The artho shastra is a manual, and it has this typical style of indian manuals. It's procedure elist every possible kind of governor or minister and cortesan - gives you what to do with them. But it can also very poetic. There's an extraordinary amount of material that tells us things about the state of the practical sciences. I early south asia, it really made me realize how much how economy worked at that time.

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