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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

The Instructions for the King

The instructions for the king can be seen as a metaphor for any sort of leader, in any sort of person trying to garner success and be successful in the world. There's a large roll for spies in this ideal state, which fascinite. The style and structure of the text is quite terse; it doesn't really fit into one literary gena or another. It has these verses that i've mentioned at the end of each chapter - they are mostly in prose. So you don't see these kinds of characters anywhere else but india. Whether they ever existed,. but it's a great story. I like to think this is who i would have been in ancient india.

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