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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What's the Intent of the Chastre?

The ata shastre is thought to have been written around the beginning of the common era. It's a mostly prose work, but it has these kind of pithy summary verses at the end of chapters. The people being taught are rulers or those who are in the business of advising rulers. How the wost is getting on with i civilization quite well at that time.

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