King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India

Kautilya's Arthasastra

Buch | Softcover

784 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780190644123 (ISBN)

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King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AS. was described as perhaps the most precious work in the whole range of Sanskrit literature, an assessment that still rings true. Patrick Olivelle's new translation of this significant text, the first in close to half a century, takes into account a number of important advances in our knowledge of the texts, inscriptions, and archeological and art historical remains from the period in Indian history to which the AS. belongs.

The AS. is what we would today call a scientific treatise. It codifies a body of knowledge handed down in expert traditions and is specifically interested in two things: first, how a king can expand his territory, keep enemies at bay, enhance his external power, and amass riches; second, how a king can best organize his state bureaucracy to consolidate his internal power, to suppress internal enemies, to expand the economy, to enhance his treasury through taxes, duties, and entrepreneurial activities, to keep law and order, and to settle disputes among his subjects. The AS. stands alone: there is nothing like it before and there is nothing like it after.

Patrick Olivelle is Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions at the University of Texas at Austin.

Preface
Abbreviations
Note to the Translation
Outline of the Arthasastra
Introduction
Translation

Book 1: On the Subject of Training
Book 2: On the Activities of Superintendents
Book 3: On Justices
Book 4: Eradication of Thorns
Book 5: On Secret Conduct
Book 6: Basis of the Circle
Book 7: On the Sixfold Strategy
Book 8: On the Subject of Calamities
Book 9: Activity of a King Preparing to March into Battle
Book 10: On War
Book 11: Conduct toward Confederacies
Book 12: On the Weaker King
Book 13: Means of Capturing a Fort
Book 14: On Esoteric Practices
Book 15: Organization of A Scientific Treatise

Notes
Appendix 1: Fauna and Flora
Appendix 2: Weights and Measures
Appendix 3: Geographical Names
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2016
Übersetzer	Patrick Olivelle
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1134 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9780190644123 / 9780190644123
Zustand	Neuware