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  • Chapter 2 - Arthaśāstra Historiography

  • Mark McClish, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    The History of the Arthasastra
    Published online:
    28 June 2019
    Print publication:
    11 July 2019, pp 28-51

  • Summary

    An overview of the historiography of the Arthaśāstra, beginning with a presentation of the text's formal and informal features. This chapter then goes on to explore the traditional history of the text, which assigns it to a figure called Cāṇakya who probably lived in the late fourth/early third century BCE. A critique of this account is offered based on a preliminary examination of the text's features. Rules out the possibility that the extant text could have been produced at one time by a single author.