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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The King's Use of Force

There's a wonderful picture of society we get here that we get in almost no other text. Some of the fun bits, the most fun bits for me is just to do with actually what it tells us about women. We don't often hear about this in the indian world. This tells us about what happens when a couple hate each other and really want to get out of the marriage. A qartesa chooses beautiful and young and cultured women and owns the brothels. So they have a huge amount of tax on their beauty,. When they become madam you lose their beauty, as they say. You have a place in retirement where they pay a huge amount but they

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