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

( 15 ) centuries B. c. the subject of royal policy was a recogniz- ed topic. The schools are the Mânavas, Bârhaspatyas, Aushanasas, Ambhîyas (no doubt, of Taxila ) and Parâ- sharas,and the individuals Bhâradvâja, Vishâlâksha, Pi- shuna, Kaunpadanta, Vâtavyâdhi and Bâhudantî-putra. It is, therefore, of interest to find that in the account of the science occurrig in the Mahâbhârata (cited by Prof. Jacobi, 1911, p.973)* some of these names occur. There we are told that the founder of the science was Brahmâ himself, whose work was abridged by Shiva in a treatise entitled Vaishâlâksha, and then further abridged in succession by Indra, who compiled the Bâhudantaka, Brihaspati the Bârhaspatya, and Kavi ( Ushanas ), the (Aushanasa) treatise-of which the last-mentioned is named along with those of Manu, Indra, Bhâradvāja, and Gaurashiras in another passage of the same book (c. 58, 2-3), also in 1. 98, 36 and elsewhere in the lite- rature(e.g. sâma aushanasa in the Jânakī harana, x.26). †एतत्ते राजधर्म्माणं नवनीतं युधिष्ठिर । बृहस्पतिर्हि भगवान्नायं धर्मं प्रशंसति ॥ १ ॥ विशालाक्षश्च भगवान्काव्यश्चैव महातपाः । सहस्राक्षो महेन्द्रश्च तथा प्राचेतसो मनुः ॥ २ ॥ भरद्वाजश्च भगवाँस्तथा गौरशिरा मुनिः । राजशास्त्र प्रणेतारो ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मवादिनः ॥ ३ ॥ शा० अ० ५७

• Also cited by Dr G. Oppert in his Weapons, Army Organisation And Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus, 1880, p 35. B.Datta. † I have introduced here the original shlokas for the benefit of the reader. B. Datta.