बार्हस्पत्य सूत्र / अर्थशास्त्र (महर्षि बृहस्पति - प्राचीन दण्डनीति, राजधर्म एवं कूटनीति सटीक)

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which has been expanded by Benfey, with remarkable learning, into an important treatise; just as another sentence from the same eminent scholar developed in the hands of Bopp into the science of Comparative Philology. In its technical form the Indian science of polity first became known by the publication of the Kâmand- aki-Nîtisâra with selections from the commentary (edited by Râjendralâl Mitra and others in Bibliotheca Indica, 1861-1884). The next stage is represented by two valuable publications of Professor Formichi, a translation of the work of Kâmandaki and a treatise entitled Gli Indiani e la loro Scienza politica (Bologna, 1890). In 1908 a notable paper by Professor Hillebra- ndt drew attention to a number of quotations from a prose work ascribed to Cânakya, also known as Vishnu- gupta and Kautilya, which was plainly the original authority upon which the later scholastic expositions by Kâmandaki and others were based. Prof. Hillebra- ndt was unaware at the time that this original trea- tise had already been discovered in South India, and that the discoverer, Pandit Shama Shastri of Mysore, had published an article dealing with it in the Indian Antiquary (1905, pp. 5 sqq.) and had commenced to issue a translation in the Mysore Review (1906-9, completed in the Indian Antiquary for 1909–10), of which publications notice was taken in Mr Vincent Smith's Early History of India (Oxford, 1907, pp. 134 sqq.) The text was edited by Pandit Shama Shastri (Mysore Government Oriental Library Series : Biblio- theca Sanskrita, No. 37) in 1909, in which year, having