Author: Several Contributors
Translator(s)/ Edito: K.P. Jog
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 168
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171546528
Description
This volume in commemoration of late Prof. Kangle's birth centenary (1899-1999) contains papers relating to the work of Kautilya (alias Canakya). They are written by scholars who feet greatly indebted to Kangle's critical work on Kautilya.
They present (i) the socio-political and philosophical aspects of Kautilya's thought; (ii) the relevance of his thought on the present day situation; (iii) the peculiar features of his language; (iv) certain problems pertaining to the text of the Kautiliya Arthasastra; and (v) some allied topics which were not tackled by earlier scholars.
Two significant topics of Indology may also we be pointed out in particular : some papers deal with the literary aspects of Kautilya's Sastric writing and again two papers pertain to some principles involved in the handling of the manuscript material of ancient texts; these are related to textual criticism. Kangle’s critical edition of the Arthasastra does not (and did not) fail to invite scholars’ attention to the same.
Contents
1. Morality in Kautilya’s
Theory of Diplomacy
2. Kautilya’s Arthasastra
And the Kanikaniti
3. Socio-Political Philosophy
Of Kautilya
4. Exploring the Areas of
Dandaniti and Dharma
5. Kautilya’s Arthasastra
And the early Dharmasutras
6. Lokasamgraha in Kautilya
7. Management – the Kautilya
Connection
8. Coinage in Kautilya’s
Arthasastra
9. Relevance of Kautilya on
The Concept of sovereignty
10. Woman in Canakya’s
Literature
11. Canakya and Chandragupta
In Jaina tradition