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The Arthashastra

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Maabartas and the Arta Shastras

The mahabarata is generally understood not to be an arta shastra as such. It's about a massive civil war, the destruction of the state and giving you counter normativ examples. A lot of artashastra o, no like thinking, is deeply imbedded in this work. The text had been very influential for a while, and then it kind of disappears from reference for centuries.

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