Kautilya’s Arthasastra Translated by R. Shamasastry

Likewise what Barba the author of the Kädambari says codemning the science of Kautilya seems to strengthen the autheticity of the work and the identification of Kautilya as the author of it. [...] imposing upon the credulity and superstition of the people ;4 the confiscation of the jtoperty of the rich under the plea of embezzlement or of tiding over famine and other national calamties!'' the slaughter of beasts on a large scale for the supply of fleth to the people including even the Brahmans ;6 state-owned drinking saloons to supply liquor to men women and children of all castes tor [...] The reasons put forward by them as summarised in the Introduction to the edition of Kautiliya Arthagastra in the Punjab Sanskrit Series are : (1) As the date of the importation of the Kämandakiya Nitisara into the island of Bali is not definitely determined mere priority of the Arthagästra to the Nitisgra is not enough to settle the date of the former. [...] It follows therefore that the ArthagAstra of kautilya describing as it does the prevalence of the kErsh5pana of sixteen miishas must necesarily have been in existence before Patafijali ; for the Arthagästra is a lifelike picture of the commercial history of the times to which it belongs but is not like the Smritis detoted to the description of the currency of the Vedic times merely in con [...] in the high road ; the superintendent of store-house ; the superintendent of commerce ; the superintendent of forest produce ; the superitendent of the armoury; the superintendent of weights and measures ; measurement of space and time ; the superintendent of tors ; the superintendent of weaving ; the superintendent of agriculture ; the superintendent of liquor ; the superintendent of slaughter